Dave Taht's early discussions of fq for ISPs

citation of the robots.txt file

Report fake/false news here

The 1908 encyclopedia

New FCC docket, July 2016

Eric Schultz on the FCC (slides attached)

TP-Link's FAQ

save wifi coalition

public initiative

The thing the EU directive contradicts

EU screw-up, contradicting themselves

tars technica article, with denial

contradiction with wi-fi

Contradiction in the LTE-U proposal and the router one

reference design ki, for set-top boxes

The chromebook washer itself

Security of low-cost systems, in the 2013 Linux Security Summit

How to create your own fake wi-fi country

Linux Wireless team on compliance

More information on the radar problem

VW problem

The problem with software-defined radios

Mention of the operator's duty to prevent interference.

Language is usually "operator", occasionally "owner or operator"

First mention (of several) of the FCC's desire to prevent the owner of the device from controlling its settings.

The preamble notes the FCC's desire to support the ongoing improvement of the wi-fi devices by the purchasers and the community.

And this is the required means, that the router vendors prevent loading of software that does not meet the desired ends. Previous documents instead specified that DD-WRT not be loaded.

The FCC document is no longer available: please see http://web.archive.org/web/20150803065407/https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=1UiSJRK869RsyQddPi5hpw%3D%3D&desc=594280%20D02%20U-NII%20Device%20Security%20v01r02&tracking_number=39498

It is cited in https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.wired.com/2015/09/hey-fcc-dont-lock-wi-fi-routers/

This, however, changes the discussion to make the user or operator, rather than a third party, unable to operate the router outside of the legal limits.

This is the beginning of the discussion of interest in the FCC's proposal which would ban open source operating systems.

It should be noted that this is not proposed by the FCC as a ban as such, but rather an effort to keep the devices in question operating within the law and regulations.

Our concern is it changes the regulations to make it difficult or impossible to use open source or free software operating systems, and that initially it named DD-WRT as an operating system that vendors were to required to prevent from use.

The document mentioning DD-WRT has subsequently been amended, For the relevant copy, see the Internet Archive at http://web.archive.org/web/20150803065407/https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=1UiSJRK869RsyQddPi5hpw%3D%3D&desc=594280%20D02%20U-NII%20Device%20Security%20v01r02&tracking_number=39498 at the bottom of page 2

A typical example of FCC language assigning responsibility to the operator or their agent.

Language re mitigation that should be required of router vendors

IMHO, This is arguably a requirement that should be true for any country.

The common sense of "third party" is a person other than the vendor and purchaser of some thing.

The DFS (frequency agility) requirement.

This was a requirement that a particular home router was found to not honour, and which was fixed by Dave Taht. My understanding is that in certain cases it would transmit until a timer ran out... AI DCB to ask Dave

Mitigation: IMHO, this section should be split into two, one stating the mission, and one suggesting mitigations in a "not limited to" format.

In particular, I'd welcome mitigations such as

• "For devices receiving their geographical location from a network service such as DHCP, the device shall used the specified country as the default location for which to set operating frequencies, output power, modulation types or other radio frequency parameters that are country-specific." and

• "For all devices using location information to set RF parameters, the purchaser/operator shall be provided with a way of changing the location to the United States.

• "For all devices where the location is not known, the device shall default to a constructed set of RF parameters that will be legal in at least the United States, and preferably in any country.

The citation of DD-WRT The linked document is no longer available at the FCC link address.