15 Sep
2017
15 Sep
'17
4:52 p.m.
Ok so this is interesting in one way, but thinking of this like a business
no in a profit context, but in a customer context. Is there really a demand
for this service. Those of you that are anti Facebook ect maybe don't
understand that groups like this exist in massive numbers in the social
media sphere. Examples:
Ham Radio Operators 19,833 members
100watts and a wire FB group 8,105
Amateur Radio QRP 9,105
Amateur Radio UK 5,900
Amateur Radio 18,130
Fox Tango 3,487
My point/though is this idea just inventing a really great buggy whip while
everyone is driving cars?
Devils advocate
Lin
N4YCI
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:30 PM Rob Janssen <pe1chl(a)amsat.org> wrote:
A private, ham
only OpenID server? that should provide authentication
as well as authorization for assorted servers. Make it stand alone &
not tied to any particular service like amprnet or echolink or LOTW.
make it freely accessible to anyone who wants to authenticate a ham
anywhere.
Yes, that is the basic idea, but it should not be limited to website usage
and it should be possible to retrieve attributes such as "is this a
verified
licensed hamradio operator". The user list could contain outsiders,
unverified hams and verified hams, and the facilities available to them
could
be different. E.g. a user who is not a verified ham would not be able to
use an
Echolink-like service, but they could read and contribute to a mailinglist.
The service should offer some different APIs, e.g. RADIUS for user/password
authentication and maybe something like OpenID for website logon.
When a user has a valid account, he should be able to obtain client
certificates
for use in services where that is appropriate.
The PKI design has to be careful, with some attention to detail a lot of
mishaps can be avoided. This requires expertise in the matter.
Rob
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