On 3/9/12 8:58 AM, Gerald Chouinard wrote:
Agreed. This acknowledgement should be kept to its simplest form.
My guess is that confirming back to the WSDB the channel(s) that is(are)
being used by the device and the maximum EIRP that will be used (per
channel) should be sufficient for the purpose of interference
considerations.
Folks,
Fair warning as your incoming AD, but also as a current AD who thought
he understood what work this group was chartered to do:
The group is chartered to do (1) database discovery, (2) database
access, (3) data formats for that database access, and (4) security for
that database access. The charter also describes what that database
access is like: (a) provide geolocation and other info to query the
database, and (b) receive the whitespace that can be used.
Insofar as what this charter only allows for protocol that is about
database discovery and database access, the so-called "acknowledgment"
you all are talking is either writing back to the database (if the
"acknowledgment" data gets saved into the same database) or is
non-database-access protocol to talk to a third party. In either case,
I, as an AD, would be extremely surprised to find out either that the
database was writeable by the client (that was not my understanding of
the query described in the "rough outline of the protocol" section of
the charter) or that there was to be additional protocol that sent data
from the client to a third party. There is a whole new set of
considerations on such protocol (e.g., Does the information sent back
from the client need TTL values? Is there a renewal process on the data
after some time? What if there are multiple clients accessing at the
same time and they choose the same value? Can the response get back an
error and the client has to choose something different?).
If you wish to take on this work, you need to go back to the IESG and
re-charter. That's fine: If the WG feels that this piece of protocol is
required in order to make the rest of the protocol at all useful, now is
the time to tell the IESG that and figure out how to write it into the
charter. But doing this work without a charter change is going to cause
heartache later.
pr
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