On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Wayne Workman wrote:
One thing Is for sure - if the FCC can't see this, they will have
effectively handicapped yet another technology, they will basically kill
wifi. In the public's minds it will become some gross slow thing.
Agreed.
David Lang
Again, reminds me of what the FCC, RCA, and copyright courts did to FM back
at its birth.
On Mar 14, 2016 2:13 PM, "David Lang" <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, dpr...@reed.com wrote:
But it will take working with both the FCC and the chip vendors, and the
home access point vendors with a common purpose and agenda. That agenda
needs to be to find the minimum lock that will satisfy the FCC, and a
sufficiently cheap implementation that, along with the cost saving on
design certification, it is cheaper to make a router that is otherwise
open, than to make one whose certification depends on review of all the
code in the router.
This should never require review of all the code in the router. At most it
should require review of the firmware code for the wifi chip.
Linux has had this sort of thing in the past, look at the ISDN code that
required certification to operate.
This is a common design pattern. The DAA for phones is now purchasable as
a single module, FCC precertified, so one can make any kind of cordless
phone be certifiable, merely by using that part. That part is more
expensive than one I could design myself, but it saves on certification
cost, because the rest of the phone or modem doesnt need certification, so
one can innovate.
The problem is how much stuff gets stuffed in this certified component.
Cell phones, with their 'baseband processor' are a good example of too much
functionality being in the certified component.
We want to get more access to what's currently in the wifi chipset
firmware, not have it all locked down more.
David Lang
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