[AG-TECH] AG Venue Access Control

[Stuart Levy]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:03:58AM -0500, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> In the "almost ready to tell you about" 2.1 release schedule for this
> Friday, we have added functionality that allows you (as the venue or
> venueserver administrator) to specify who is allowed in (or not allowed in).
> This authorization mechanism will be expanding in the future, but currently
> it enables essentially ACL-like control of every venue.

How will it work?  Will it use encryption keys for the streams,
or just tell the tools not to start if the wrong site tries to start them?
I'm wondering if it's the kind of thing that could be evaded by
people who knew the multicast addresses for the venue.

    Stuart