At 01:05 PM 11/25/2002 -0800, Jim Thompson wrote:
Perhaps the appropriate response is much (much) lower tx power/EIRP for devices that don't implementOf course, and MS may indeed have that in mind too. Perhaps they want full 802.11e to be mandated for the whole UNII band.
said "spectrum etiquette"
In my mind, TPC is at least as, if not more important than DFS.
In addition, there can be little debate that the largest percentage of users will be 802.11(a) in that band,Jim - it's worth a discussion on this, but it's presupposing a lot to assume that 802.11a *will* always be dominant. Of course, if the FCC is required to mandate 802.11a for all users of UNII band, then we won't be seeing long distance links like Motorola's Canopy system. And we won't be seeing much innovation in radio techniques, except for those proposed by the 802.11 suppliers.
anything that favors things that aren't 802.11a is "unfair" to the majority of the users in that band.
Part 15 rules have been good to 802.11. It's not at all obvious that we need to go to rules like FRS and GMRS. Should the FTC ban Linux because most users run Windows and Linux users are not fully interoperable with Windows?
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