The problem is, in a democracy full of special interests, how does one
determine fairly what that compatibilty standard should be?
You got it. In a democracy full of special interests, who decides?
It depends on the charter of who is organizing the standard and who the
participants are.
The 802.11 standard comes courtesy of ieee. I don't know their rules.
Our Internet standards come from the IETF which is a democracy of volunteer
technical individuals, companies and governments have little to no influence
(this is good).
Consortia and industry organizations in the US (like TIA) tend to give
over-consideration to manufacturer participants ... those that build the
equipment. I'd bet the WiMAX forum is in this category, where it likely
only really represents the manufacturers and a collection of dominant
carriers who have chosen to participate.
These are exactly the reasons some Industry associations of USERS host their
own standard setting groups (like APCO and I believe CTIA) where basically
they're issueing a statement of what they want Manufacturers to build. Of
course manufacturers participate, trying to steer the outcome to what they
want to build, but users org standards groups tend to (by their own rules)
give greater voice to volunteer users that choose to participate. I've
participated in innumerable standard setting groups, for manufacturer
organizations and user organizations. Chaired many of the groups, too.
Fascinating when a group of participants attempt to come to a concensus on
anything. The output is only as important as the unity of voice with which
the organization speaks (for example, few public safety agencies in this
country choose to purchase and deploy any wireless system that does not have
APCO's seal of compliance to APCO user issued standards). In their market
APCO speaks for the buying power of the public safety users (as I believe
does CTIA).
Democracy, got'ta love it & hate it at the same time.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] UL WiMAX update
You bring up an interesting point, comparing to GSM..
The problem is, in a democracy full of special interests, how does one
determine fairly what that compatibilty standard should be?
One of the Reasons WiMax still is not deployed, while non-standards
product are flourishing.
Is it better to get it done, or get it done right but while trying end up
never getting it done?
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
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