Serg wrote: > You brought up a tricky subject and I definitely would be interested to > hear some feedback from someone who dealt with various government bodies in > different countries.
Who dealt with various government bodies? Why do we need to deal with them at all? I do not seek any kind of governmental approval for our work, and I am perfectly happy with selling our hardware products as black market goods similar to alternative medicines such as cocaine and heroin. But I do wish to ship our GSM MS products including development boards with individual-per-unit factory-assigned IMEIs, world-unique to the best of our ability and standing a good chance of being accepted as valid by major GSM networks. Of course every user's undeniable ability to set her own IMEI is a key feature of FreeCalypso GSM MS offerings, thus if the IMEIs we assign at the factory end up not being accepted as valid by some network our users wish to use, those users can simply change the IMEI to their own (whatever their target network will swallow), but I still wish to ship our devices from the factory with IMEI assignments as good and as close to legitimate as we are able, hence my idea of a Recycled IMEI Registry to provide psychological legitimization (psychological, not legal/governmental!) of our squatting on an unused/wasted subrange of the IMEI range originally assigned to the Pirelli DP-L10. IOW, I just want to include a statement in the FCDEV3B product description to the effect of "every unit is shipped from the factory with a unique IMEI, numbered from a range obtained from GSMUA Recycled IMEI Registry". :-) > Website hosting is the easy part :) Of course it is, but I offered to point the DNS to a server run by someone from the Osmocom camp as a measure of neutrality, to make GSMUA more of a neutral soil rather than purely Falconian soil like FreeCalypso. :) If I own the domain name but they control the hosting server, neither side can easily cut the other out of the loop unilaterally. But if they do not wish to accept the olive branch, we'll set up gsmua.org all on our own, and will always keep it sufficiently separate from FreeCalypso so that non-FC people would be welcome to join GSMUA if they are interested. M~ _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@freecalypso.org https://www.freecalypso.org/mailman/listinfo/community