So one of the nice things about attending Educause in person (which I seem to do every 4th year, or so) is that you get to browse the poster sessions. In a way this reminds me of the old days of card catalog browsing, well before it was a term to describe http. I digress, of course, since what I wanted to talk about is eduroam. In short (and from their site):
“allows users (researchers, teachers, students, staff) from participating institutions to securely access the Internet from any eduroam-enabled institution. The eduroam principle is based on the fact that the user’s authentication is done by the user’s home institution, whereas the authorisation decision allowing access to the network resources is done by the visited network.”
The poster that caught my attention and made me say: “I want that” is this one from the University of Tennessee. Partly. that was because I also saw that Duke and a few other ACC schools already had it up and running. Mostly, though, it just seems like zero config authenticated wi-fi would be a really nice benefit for our researchers, faculty, students who travel to do research at other participating institutions particularly if their card catalogs are online.
