Look folks...
You can either try to unite the WISP industry (the Rick approach) for a
better future, or try to continue to fragment it (the Charles
approach).
You can either try to grow beyond past mistakes and personality
clashes... or keep rehashing the past mistakes and personality clashes
over, and over, and over, to the ultimate detriment of the industry as
a whole.
The bottom line in this discussion is that there's going to be a suit
up in front of the FCC on Thursday morning who is going to try his best
(I'm convinced) to give an overview of what the WISP industry has done
AS A WHOLE.
To give credence to Rick's point of view on this, he has been plugged
into MUCH (not quite all, but MUCH) of what has been going on with the
efforts of PART-15.ORG members. I've been privy to some of the
communications between the two "sides", and both Rick and Michael are
bending over backwards trying to do the right things for the industry
as a whole. It may well never be "happy-happy" between the two sides,
but there's been more progress in the last ten days to grow beyond the
"troubles" than in the previous two years.
Charles, basically, has NO clue about what's been going on other than
what he reads on wireless@wispa.org and in turn expresses a knee-jerk
reaction of "Michael Anderson BAD" and "WISPA efforts GOOD".
While I'm not going to get into a tit-for-tat of who's done more,
better, faster, etc., I will state that quite apart from the
unfortunate experience of the "Kelly WISP incident", PART-15.ORG has is
doing some of the same things as the WISPA contingent. It's hardly the
case that Anderson / PART-15.ORG is trying to claim credit for the
enormous good that the WISPA contingent has done. For one thing, it
would be ludicrous to do so given that the WISPA contingent has
succeeded in garnering some favorable mentions for WISPA's work in
national press.
It's also the case that some of the lessons learned and the donations
and volunteer management expertise that PART-15.ORG developed in the
last week are being leveraged to help the WISPA contingent.
Choose your course.
Thanks,
Steve
On Sep 13, 2005, at 09:00, Charles Wu wrote:
Well, if you look at it - w/out WISPA's efforts, there would be
NOTHING to
talk about it
It would take approximately 30 seconds to introduce WISPA - and 4 1/2
minutes is plenty of time for a WISPA representative to talk
WISPA has a good story to tell (heck, it made national news) - I think
it
would be best for someone from the front lines (maybe reward Mac for
his
initiative and efforts?) to tell the story
-Charles
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