[AG-TECH] Lurkers in the venues

[Kabe Vanderbaan]

To build upon Don's argument, there is also the case where Nodes are left in a
certain venue, i.e. forget to move to the Lobby after a meeting is finished.  

Does the secure room act as a short term solution for those cases as well?
(If a node is in the room before the keys are changed??)

Kabe


Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
> Don,
> 
> We have been thinking about how to implement a generallized access
> control mecahnism.  Maybe Bob can talk about current thinking in
> that direction.. in the mean time the secure room avoids this by using
> the key distribution as an ad hoc access control.  We can build as many
> secure rooms as we need until we have the automatic access control in
> place.
> 
> --Rick
> 
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Don Morton wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > As some of you have probably noticed, it's getting harder and harder
> > to have a semi-confidential meeting in one of the venues (e.g. proposal
> > related stuff) without having one or two sites sitting in there with
> > 4 videos, audio turned on, sometimes even testing audio in the middle
> > of a meeting.  Although appeals to the community at large probably help
> > to reduce this, it ain't working, and my uneducated guess suggests it
> > will get worse - it seems like more and more, folks are jumping in
> > who seem unaware of things like this mailing list, the general
> > AG community, etc.
> >
> > So, is there any sort of thought/interest in some mechanism that allows
> > someone who's actually reserved a venue to control access to that venue
> > during the time reserved?  For example, consider the following:
> >
> > - Joe/Jane Sixpack makes a venues reservation on behalf of whatever group
> >   wants to come together and meet
> >
> > - Joe/Jane Sixpack (you can tell we're still thinking about this Beer
> >   Symposium :) :)) is automagically emailed some random access code that's
> >   good during the event
> >
> > - This access code allows Joe/Jane Sixpack access to some GUI that essentially
> >   allows for blocking out the "riff raff" :) :) :)
> >
> > Obviously, it's "do-able" but I don't understand the venues system well enough
> > to
> > understand the feasibility of integration into existing components - probably a
> > real bear.....
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > Don
> > --
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> >
> >

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