From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Faidon Liambotis Subject: Re: [RFC] Geographical/regulatory information for ieee80211 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:07:30 +0300 Message-ID: References: <443EF3E9.7050303@lwfinger.net> <20060414152715.GC29461@instant802.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42458 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030295AbWDORHx (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:07:53 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FUoFN-0005G2-2v for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:07:46 +0200 Received: from 147.102.26.135 ([147.102.26.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:07:45 +0200 Received: from faidon by 147.102.26.135 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:07:45 +0200 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060414152715.GC29461@instant802.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jouni Malinen wrote: > The maximum power would be quite useful--I would say required--part of > regulatory domain information.. In other words, I would like to see the > groups created in a way that would take differences in power limits into > account. Without this, the groups will need to be re-created at some > point in the future when IEEE 802.11d and IEEE 802.11h would like to use > the same table.. In addition, flag of specifying indoor/outdoor/both > would be a nice addition. Speaking of 802.11h, for the table to be complete, it should specify which protocol is allowed on a given channel. EU members allow 802.11h (DFS/TPC) but not 802.11a. This is an important distinction that, IMHO, should be included in a regulatory information table. Regards, Faidon