RE: Please make sure that you do not run your WLAN in ad hoc mode

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If the architecture profession carried on the way engineers do the world
would be full of buildings with no interior walls or floors.

You sound like a 1950s British trades unionist calling his men out on
strike over demarcation.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson, David [mailto:dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:45 AM
> To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip; ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Please make sure that you do not run your WLAN 
> in ad hoc mode
> 
> Phillip Hallam-Baker writes...
> 
> > I think that what we should do is to send the IEEE 801.b/g group a 
> > polite letter pointing out that if our people here at the 
> IETF cannot 
> > figure this stuff out then their less technically astute customers
> might
> > be having some trouble as well.
> 
> I don't believe this is an 802.11 problem.  That group 
> standardizes PHY and MAC (up to Layer 2) protocols.  The 
> usability problems with 802.11 networks are in the device 
> drivers, operating systems and configuration applications.  
> It would be more effective to send mail to Microsoft, Apple, et. al.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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