From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtp94.iad3a.emailsrvr.com ([173.203.187.94]:51410 "EHLO smtp94.iad3a.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751644AbeBCQVB (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2018 11:21:01 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 11:21:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: WiFi Aware question From: "dpreed@deepplum.com" To: make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Message-ID: <1517674860.241213104@apps.rackspace.com> (sfid-20180203_172105_101735_E495EFE3) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: [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.