On 8/21/14 2:59 AM, Vincent Chen wrote:
= Section 5.2 =
I'd like to discuss why the device serial number needs to be
included in
the device descriptor, rather than some (perhaps persistent) randomly
generated device identifier that is used only in the context of this
protocol (which would better protect the privacy of the user of the
device, since the whitespaces database administrator wouldn't be
able to
correlate the device's spectrum requests with other activities
linked to
the serial number). It's not really clear why serial number is
collected
since both this document and RFC 6953 note the protocol does not
defend
against abuse or mis-use of spectrum.
The regulator want to have the ability to black list ranges of serial
numbers, if it
determines that a series was defective. The Databases must use the
serial number
to determine it can return available spectrum.
But that makes this a "required by ruleset but not by protocol" issue,
right?
pr
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