UCTrust Wireless Notes - 2010-08-13

UCTrust Wireless Notes - 2010-08-13

Participants

Review of Radius's Ability to Send Attributes

• The group discussed Erik Klavon's review of Radius and eduRoam's ability to send attributes about the guest user.
• Erik suggested that establishing a well-known electronic mail address for each site could help with some of our issues.

Review of the Comparison of Alternative Federated Wireless Authentication Strategies

• The group discussed Comparison of Alternative Federated Wireless Authentication Strategies.
• EduRoam does provide some level information about guests, albeit minimal.
• A captive portal could be used in conjunction with 802.1x to present hosts' policies.
• We took a straw poll to get a sense of how UC campuses are thinking about the alternatives.  No guarantees were given or expected that these are "official" opinions of the campuses, just opinions/guesses of the meeting participants at the time of the meeting.
  • UCSD: eduRoam and captive portal
  • UCLA: eduRoam and whatever this group decides
  • UCD: eduRoam and whatever this group decides
  • UCSC: eduRoam and captive portal
  • UCB: eduRoam eventually, but would need some issues addressed; willing to do captive portal, although there may be workload issues to resolve
  • UCR: captive portal and whatever this group decides

Next Steps

• David Walker will draft a statement of direction for review by the CPG and the UCTrust Work Group.
  • Most campuses are planning to join eduRoam, but we have issues with its relative lack of ability to communicate with guests and to obtain basic contact information about them.
  • All campuses are willing to implement the captive portal strategy that this group has outlined.  It will require resources to implement, however.