A side question re wiFi and the FCC

Fokks, can you comment on whether the wi-fi code that in the blobs (for closed source) or the drivers sets compliance-critivcal parametrers like which challes to use and how much power?

The US FCC have asked for comments (and got them from Dave Taht and Vint Cerf!) about how to keep software open versus not letting people triviually misconfigure their wi-fi to mess up things like airport weather rader. The paper is at http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/fcc_saner_software_pract...

I was an editor on the Dave-and-Vint comment, and would love to chat, here or in email, in particular about whether wi-fi vendors are using the Linux networking team's cryptographically signed configurations for radio devices, the Central Regulatory Domain Agent (CRDA, at https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/regulatory)

Or something else cool!

--dave
davecb@spamcop.net