From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from webmail.newmedia-net.de (smtps.newmedia-net.de [IPv6:2a05:a1c0:0:de::167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4661B3CB40 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 08:40:42 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dd-wrt.com; s=mikd; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject; bh=FJ98fNSHDI4UlMCRShSWkE6dep7Vc+H6RhRbgBNAt9I=; b=D4zAy6AqlxT5Kp+9YQ/UF+/ONCuUGA981/aIU+xZgibPhrJtS5QL0jD+Sy24Ao7SmdvLkg0OM/ReczTh8P+A8UeVyus71Om0OODXyv9ABY5z8XiJPDE8safoAAqwDGzOLhi/OJ3NCsu5wnJ1h8QnNUtVSzP9b87GDKrBYgzrNyU=; To: "dpreed@deepplum.com" , make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <1517674860.241213104@apps.rackspace.com> From: Sebastian Gottschall Message-ID: <35375ec7-51eb-b9b6-1b7d-4099225dd308@dd-wrt.com> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 14:40:39 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1517674860.241213104@apps.rackspace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Received: from [2003:c9:3f18:e800:60e1:92fb:719a:b2e5] by webmail.newmedia-net.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1eiKXA-0000he-Dk; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:40:40 +0100 Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] WiFi Aware question X-BeenThere: make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 13:40:42 -0000 Am 03.02.2018 um 17:21 schrieb dpreed@deepplum.com: > [I apologize for sending this with an old subject line and with another conversation attached. It was a dumb and distracting thing to do to these lists. My fault.] > > I'm curious about the "WiFi Aware" initiative by the WiFi Alliance. > > Does LEDE and/or Linux support this protocol? I know gSupplicant is potentially the way such things are supposed to work, at least according to its supporters. > > The general NAN (Neighborhood-Aware-Networking) concept makes a lot of sense at one level, but as an Internet guy, it troubles me that they decided to split from the Internet and go a balkanized direction. To me, the neighborhood is interesting only as part of a larger Internet. > > It also troubles me that WiFi Aware is a "certification program" rather than a real standard, and has serious problems with supporting Internet. But there will be devices that require it. > if i read carefully about wifi-aware i just can say that i hope it will never be supported by any party. this is is no service. this is a spy application > > -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Regards Sebastian Gottschall / CTO NewMedia-NET GmbH - DD-WRT Firmensitz: Stubenwaldallee 21a, 64625 Bensheim Registergericht: Amtsgericht Darmstadt, HRB 25473 Geschäftsführer: Peter Steinhäuser, Christian Scheele http://www.dd-wrt.com email: s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com Tel.: +496251-582650 / Fax: +496251-5826565