[AG-TECH] Lurkers in the venues

[Jason Leigh]

Don, Rick,

I met with Von Welch today, who is working on Community Access Servers
for authenticating and authorizing resources for communities of users.
He, as well as Deb Agarwal, will be giving talks at the ACE meeting at
GGF4. That will be a good opportunity to discuss this further.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: Don Morton
> Cc: Sergeant A. G. Tech
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Lurkers in the venues
> 
> 
> 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
> > -- 
> > Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
> > Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
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> > 
> > 
> 
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