To late to add a Sunday Tutorial, base on MERIT data. Re: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

Sun Sep 22 21:54:10 UTC 2002

Based on information at MERIT's website, its tolate to submit
a resentation.  In addition such presentations must be finalized
and the slides approved by Merit  no later than 30-Sep.

Its important to note that the second requirement isn't publicly
stated.  I did receive email from Dr. Harris, that my two approved
presentations

Flotsam and Jetsam of the Net, a study at junk on the net. 

and

IANA Running a IRR for IANA-Reserved space
  (a presentation supported by the IANA)

have now been canceled because of this unknown 30-Sep requirement.

I've appealed to Dr. Harris's management  on the issue.  They
should have published the schedules better.  I should know more
soon.

Merit handles NANOG meetings, like it handles network security.

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 05:06:27PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
> >     - the users need to be told how to operate more safely, use
> >       end-to-end authentication and privacy, etc.  it's a matter of
> >       education.  and the education will stand them in good stead
> >       when they use 802.11 at starbucks, airports, etc.  we do this
> >       at ietf, but it is not allowed at nanog.
> 
> Sunday afternoon is full of tutorials on lots of different subjects.
> Has anyone volunteed to conduct a Sunday tutorial on wireless security
> for users of "public" wireless networks?
> 
> Although I think it is a mistake to think a wireless network security
> is different than using any other network you don't control.  Most
> wireless security tutorials tend to concentrate on "securing" the
> wireless network instead of how to communicate over an untrusted
> network.
> 
> 