re Google asks FCC to appoint it a "white space" database admin

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Bob Frankston <bob2-39 () bobf frankston com>
> Date: January 6, 2010 6:25:33 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net, 'ip' <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Cc: 'Vint Cerf' <vint () google com>
> Subject: RE: [IP] Google asks FCC to appoint it a "white space"  
> database admin

> I wonder about adding even more complexity and central control than  
> we already have. What are the odds the database will be accurate?
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> We already suffer from a system that takes the abundant wireless  
> capacity and brings it under control of a vast regulatory system. (http://rmf.vc/?n=WhitespacePolicy 
> ).
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> Yet when I look around at all the Wi-Fi capacity going unused I  
> wonder why we don’t do something much simpler and make that capacity 
>  available by adding a second SSID for public use. It would obviate  
> the need for central management and since we’re just going to a near 
> by access point we avoid many of the issues associated with signalin 
> g over a long distance.
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> Is your communicating wrist watch really going to have to consult a  
> government maintained database? Will it need to know where it is at  
> all times?
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> From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 17:47
> To: ip
> Subject: [IP] Google asks FCC to appoint it a "white space" database  
> admin
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: January 6, 2010 5:44:11 PM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Google asks FCC to appoint it a "white space"  
> database admin
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> Google asks FCC to appoint it a "white space" database admin
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> http://bit.ly/5vzwtS  (Urgent Communications)
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> I've been and continue to be a big supporter of the "white space"
> concept.  I'll also admit that the devil will be in the details, and
> there are various ways that white space usage could go right -- or
> wrong.  One particularly disconcerting meme I've heard floating around
> has been the idea that hacked firmware for white space devices will
> quickly emerge that "steamrolls over" the official rules and illicitly
> blows past those devices that are "playing by the rules."  If this  
> kind
> of scenario comes to pass and is common, white space could descend
> into useless chaos.
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> That would be a serious loss worth trying to prevent.
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> --Lauren--
> NNSquad Moderator
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