Re: Wi-Fi's 'N' to Get Industry Group Nod

On 29 Aug 2006 20:14:00 GMT, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:52:02 -0700 Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| That's great. The same vendors that have blocked approval of the
| proposed 802.11n standard are now allegedly looking for certification

This continues to show why standards should be developed by individuals
with no industry ties. Wouldn't IEEE be able to arrange that?

You mean academics? I suspect you've never sat in on a standards
committee mailing list or meeting. I did long long ago and consider
it the 2nd worst disappointments in my technical career. (The worst
was playing technical editor for a Unix book).

The corporate representatives are anxious to move things along. They
want product they can ship immediately or sooner. The academics are
anxious to generate research projects. Wanna guess which one will
deliver quicker?

Other candidates without industry ties are government officials and
representatives of environmental and litigatory groups. The
governments are only concerned that everything that's passed can be
regulated, taxes, controlled, or killed. The attorneys agendas are
obvious and require no explanation.

Did I miss any individuals without industry ties?

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