On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:05:59 -0800, Todd Boyle wrote: >Let me see if I understand this right. The FCC has issued >regulations, >presumably conforming to US legislation, that vendors can provide >external connectors but only if they are proprietary?
Yes, although not clear to me what "proprietary' means considering some of them you can mail order from DigiKey. Also, just about everyone I have seen has a standard PCB footprint, so if the "proprietary' connector bothers you, just unsolder it and put a standard one on (<5 15.23). >Pardon me if I conclude these regulations were written, >supported, and enacted by people who have indirect interests >in hardware and telecom company profits, and the status quo. Black helicopter's? No, the alternative would have been to have a non-detachable connector's, much like FRS radios. Even though it is silly, this alternative is better. Anyways, the rule exists for a reason and since at this point, for individual private use, I am aware of no ruling against 15.23, I'd run with it. >I will admit, I cannot establish the accuracy of my view, since the >rulemaking process is such an opaque and arbitrary process. Actually, in many cases it is not that opaque. Sometimes the FCC goes hurting for enough comments. The rule making process does have provisions for public input and they do pay attention to it. >However, it will not be possible for anybody to convince me that >my view is inaccurate, after the experience of a lifetime under >a series of bad-faith rulemaking in telephony, telecom and >computing right up to the present day (the Microsoft monopoly >continuing, ILECs monopoly continuing, radio spectrum owned >in perpetuity by corporations, etc.) I don't think the tri-lateral commission had a hand in the proprietary connector rule, but you never know. Little stuff like this, you can make a difference if you care to. -Jeff -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
