#16862: faulty regdomains: Follup to #16818, #9678
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: developers
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: Barrier Breaker (trunk)
Component: base | Version: Trunk
system | Keywords: ETSI WORLD US AT DE EU channel 12
Resolution: | 13 14
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Comment (by anonymous):
Still the discussion leaves out the usability.
OpenWRT may be the code base for some commercial routers. DD-WRT even has
a commercial license, providing for additional functions. I understand
that some points of the discussion are depending on support for this
business models - it's hard cash, that flows back into development.
Now that you bring cryptographically signed information into this
discussion, let's consider the following:
Instead of letting users - even advanced users - self-compile images, that
probably just won't work or -at worst- lead to destroyed/bricked or
otherwise crippled devices, make snapshots/images with a change in UCI: It
looks for a cryptographically signed or even encrypted regdomain
information and sets information accordingly. The signed regdomain is
interchangeable but bound to the Wifi MAC.
You could provide a web based tool creating this information.
In order to make this approach fair and equal, there must not be a
fallback regdomain. Otherwise non-US users would be discriminated.
The regdomain information should also exist on hardware with a firmware
based on OpenWRT an could reside in a flash partition, that is not
overwritten during flash (like the ART). Therefore users would not need to
buy another regdomain license - it's bound to the region the device was
sold unless a user "buys"/"registers for" a new one an exchanges it.
This is a similar approach to the faulty eeprom routines, but would work
less invasive.
It also could reduce the problem, since monetary compensation for a more
user friendly change of regdomains is possible that way, without
"reghacking".
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16862#comment:8>
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