Sigh.
First, the mission statement for WISPA, just so's we're all on the same page
about motivations:
Wireless Internet Service Providers Association is dedicated to promoting
and improving the WISP industry.
Second, if you don't like it, join us in our efforts at the regulatory
level. Sitting out there whining and tossing FUD around does nothing but
waste our time and keep you from doing installations so that you can get
more than $100 in the bank.
Third, WE don't REALLY know EXACTLY what WE have to do. That's part of what
the FBI meeting is about. It's not about kowtowing to the FBI, DOJ, FCC
etc. It's about making sure that WE can tell YOU what is going to keep your
tit out of the ringer with those people. It's also about working with them
to make sure that they don't expect things that are unreasonable or pass new
regs that have no regard for the realities of our industry niche.
Fourth, certainly I know I'm not speaking for all WISPs. I'm speaking for
WISPA. YOU get to choose whether or not you wish to agree. You can always
file a statement saying you don't agree and why. The FCC loves to hear from
us. Last I knew the IEEE never asked for my opinion on a standard they put
in place, but I use them all day every day anyhow.
Fifth, if we come up with a standard that you don't like, don't use it.
Duh. There is no requirement, no way to make a requirement, nor should
there be, for WISPA to force you to follow us. Feel free to follow any
organization, start a new one, whatever.
Sixth, don't be an ass. We're putting in our own time and usually our own
money to help make this entire industry better. I don't care to be insulted
for the privilege of taking away from my customers and my family.
Seventh, I don't disagree with that you've said. I also think that the
seatbelt laws are so much BS. But I've paid enough tickets for not wearing
one that I have given in and wear mine now. In the mean time, one of these
days I'm gonna run for Congress and I'll work to restore individual rights
and responsibility. Till then I'll do the best I can to vote for people
that respect my ability to lead my own life and my own choices. I'll also
follow their dumb a$$ed rules so that I don't go broke paying tickets or end
up in jail over it.
Eighth, some of the things that you say people don't have to do, the lawyers
constantly say that we do. Sorry, but I'm gonna put my weight on their
interpretations of the rules than yours.
Take care,
Marlon
(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services
42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
----- Original Message -----
From: "wispa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] calea meeting with the fbi
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:35:29 -0800, Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote
Hi All,
We have a meeting set up for the 22nd in Va. I have 4 people set
to go to it at this time but I'd like a 5th. I'm after a network
admin type. Anyone have the time and recourses available? Or if
I missed your offer earlier, please let me know.
I have to get info to the FBI ASAP so if you can send a network
admin to this meeting (and possibly join our calea standards
committee) please let me know.
WISPA member companies will have first crack at this, but I'll conceder
others as well.
While you're there... or, perhaps on your way there, please consider the
fact
that you and whoever is meeting there are deciding how every other WISP
will
structure his network and what they will be forced to spend or do. You
will...or will not... set a standard, and then the FCC and FBI will...or
will
not...accept it, and everyone who has filed that they will be compliant
persuant standards discussions will be obligated to do what is laid out in
the end. You're a pretty bright guy, Marlon, and I suspect it won't take
very long to see what direction this will head. You will be playing with
the
fates of a lot of people who did not choose this in ANY way.
I haven't filed, because I cannot say I can or cannot comply. However, if
this costs more than $100 to implement (that's all I have in the bank at
this
moment), I will simply file stating I cannot and will not comply, period.
If the FCC then desires to shut me down then, They will have to do so
forcibly. I will simply write a letter to all my customers, local
newspapers,
and state simply that the FCC has decided to take over all internet
communications in a few months, and that there's no room left for small
operations, and reccommend that they direct all questions to the FCC about
why thier internet service will be no more. I will cause them more grief
and
bury their office in irate phone calls and letters than they can possibly
handle. I know several sites where I can reach millions who WILL be
activists, if we're not going to act. I'm absolutely positive they have
NEVER even considered the notion (and probably do not care in the
slightest)
that what they do could devastate people's individual lives or futures.
Nor
do I think they care at all about anything but their own convenience and
political futures. I doubt a single person involved on the regulator's
end
considers that since they decided to take on and regulate an industry
which
is probably populated with the highest percentage of small operators (1 to
5
people) of any industry they've ever even dreamed of regulating, what they
do
is PERSONAL to thousands of people, and directly will impact the lives of
hundreds of thousands of other individuals. Living in the isolated and
unreal world of Washington DC does that to people.
I suggest you pass this on to the FCC and FBI, along with my estimation
that
at least 20% of all small operators will do exactly the same. I am SICK
AND
TIRED of being fed to the wolves without the slightest resistance. You,
of
all people, should know what it means to be a small, one or two man
operation
living out in the hinterland, where the rubber meets the road. There will
be
small and casual networks, small community and free networks, small joint
efforts by a few people to get for themselves what they have a right to
get.
All possibly being wiped out by careless and overreaching federal
agencies.
Who's gonna stick up for them? WISPA's just bleating and going along like
blind sheep.
I STILL cannot believe we're walking into this without a single official
objection from WISPA or the other organizations supposedly on "our" side.
I
guess I should not be surprised. Expedience has become the religion of
our
times. Like rolling over and playing dead is going to earn us brownie
points
and favors later? Don't count on it.
Will I help law enforcement track down and prosecute people who are
breaking
the law or otherwise a threat? No question at all, of COURSE I WILL. I
will
NOT pre-tap thier connection in any way that compromises my security or
their
security, costs me significantly, or is in my view, unconstitutional
(which
is pretty much anyting done ahead of time). That, as a citizen, is my
duty.
If that costs me my future and business, it's a small price to pay for
what
people have given their lives before me to preserve. If I can preserve
that
for a few people for while... I WILL DO IT.
Damn, people, STAND UP FOR ONCE.
mark at neofast dot net
neofast, Inc, wireless internet for the Walla Walla Valley and Blue
Mountains
541-969-8200
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