[AG-TECH] room node certificates

[Ivan R. Judson]

> Ah - so, let me see if I have this right.
> 
> For a typical room node, the room based services (cameras, 
> display, audio) would be started up with AGServiceManager and 
> AGNodeService pointed at a non-signed certificate that 
> identifies itself as the room facility (ie, "WPI Access Grid 
> Node").  The Venue Client would then be started up without 
> --personalNode with the signed user cert and attach to the 
> node, with the profile optionally edited to also identify 
> itself as the room facility with a role of node instead of 
> user.  This way, everything identifies itself as a part of 
> the room node rather than the individual, but with the 
> certificate, the operater can still be identified.
> 
> Correct?

This is almost exactly correct, with the added benefit that the Node Service
and Service Manager will hopefully be started at system boot time
automatically :-)

Additionally the node service will advertise itself, and the venue client
will look for those advertisements -- changing the "Preferences->Set Node
Url" menu item to "Preferences->Attach to Node" (which can be a list of
discovered nodes, plus some manual interface). Once you attach to it, you
can control it :-)

--Ivan