On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:15:21PM -0800, Jim Thompson wrote: > > The reason this happened is becasue these rules were essentially made in > > secret with the DoD, the NTIA, and the WLAN industry, though the NTIA likes > > to say they invited industry to participate. > > Actually they did. The DoD was (ahem) "quite specific" about the > requirements. I think I've said so on this list before. Check the > archives. There is also a quite open group run by Charles Glass where > most of this gets hashed out. > > The FCC had promissed several of us PTP rules for the new spectrum, > you weren't the only one dissapointed. Trust me.
Maybe Patrick or Jim knows whether DoD/NTIA compelled the FCC to certify the 5GHz radios by Atheros and Broadcom under FCC's software-defined radio (SDR) rules? Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
