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Re: [Captive-portals] thoughts on two documents



Erik Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
    > If the document simply said that receiving and authenticating an ICMP
    > message with the capport code generically "MAY/SHOULD trigger the
    > receiving node's captive portal handling subsystem", would that be
    > something that folks might agree on?

I think we can agree on it.

    > We'll need to run this whole thing by intarea and 6man as well, of
    > course.

    > And nothing stops us from proposing a mulit-part extension to be
    > optionally included in a future document, once the captive portal
    > interaction recommendations are more fully understood.

True. We just can't make any of the extensions critical.
I think that's okay, since ignoring the ICMP is also acceptable.

    > [ draft-larose-capport-architecture ]

    > I felt it was promising to hear some agreement about the functional
    > elements of a captive portal system as documented.

Please adopt it :-)

    > Given that the captive portal interaction process is still on-going
    > work, would the document authors think it worth trying to advance the
    > document with either (a) section 3 removed or (b) section 3 rewritten
    > to describe broadly how most clients behave today?

As a roadmap document, I have no problem with section 3 as is.

    > Even given the
    > variety of clients I think it could be roughly captured (e.g. make a
    > few sacrificial queries to trigger DNS/HTTP rewrites, keep trying until
    > a sacrificial query produces an expected result while launching an
    > HTTP-capable application, and so on).

I think that this is something the WG should do after adoption.
I think that there is some IPv6 flow missing, specifically for the case where
no DHCPv6 occured (SLAAC-only).  It could be that M=1 is mandatory for
captive portals.

Is there some reason we haven't adopted draft-nottingham-capport-problem-01 yet?
I would like the problem statement to outline the mechanisms used by current
captive portals and to give the mechanism names. e.g: DNS spoofing portal,
TCP-forced-proxy portal, etc.

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