Yep....you're are right. They didn't like policy recommendations. They wanted on technical recommendations. But the WG got so frustrated with the Board's flip flops on the issue (sound familiar?), that they all just resigned ... in TOTAL... after one conference call in November 2006.
I still submitted our WG year-end closing summary report to the Board for their January 2007 meeting, but by then I was about the only Ham left on the team. My HSMM node kept going with WEP encryption with a published key as everyone we talked to thought that was legal, but the WG network protection gurus did not think it was either enough protection nor even encryption. However....it worked! And I had no Part 15 traffic on my HSMM node, ever! John - K8OCL ----Original Message Follows---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Hams should have encryption... NOT Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:35:55 -0500 If one does a web search you find a lot of comments about encryption and amateur radio. But they mostly seem to come from one source. You and your group. Just because you are doing something that may be illegal or at least very borderline sub rosa type of activity does not mean that the rest of us approve of this or support you. I follow digital radio and also emergency communications quite closely and have not found any claim of legality by anyone for amateur radio encryption. I do find your committee asking for it and specially asking the ARRL Board of Directors for their support. It seems that you did not get their support and perhaps they got a bit uncomfortable about the direction you were planning to take amateur radio and that may be why they closed down what many would consider a nascent group that is studying and applying what might be the tip of the iceberg. Rick, KV9U John Champa wrote: > Kurt, > > It is already here! We have been encrypting Amateur Radio Part 97 digital > traffic 24/7 on 2.4 GHz for years! It is expanding in use in the Amateur > Radio VHF & UHF bands, but is not likely to be found on any HF bands as > international encrypted traffic is not permitted by the ITU....but there are > ways around that too (MAC filtering, etc.). > > John > > -
