[632] in resnet
Re: Air Space Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Tinsley)
Tue Jan 8 17:48:55 2002
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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:32:40 -0500
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From: Tom Tinsley <TTinsley@WLU.EDU>
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I'm curious to know whether any of the institutions which have announced
such policies have had them reviewed by their legal counsels.
I'm not a lawyer, but as a holder of a number of commercial and amateur
licenses issued by the FCC, I always thought their (federal) laws
regarding the use of the spectrum anywhere in this country take
precedence. The FCC "Class B Computing Device" (Part 15) notice
supplied with our Enterasys cards suggests several remedies for dealing
with interference, but attempting to deny the use by others of similar
devices is not one of them.
So, what do you tell a student who has a 2.4 GHz cordless phone in his
room? The phone presumably has some sort of FCC type-acceptance (Part
15, again) label on it, making it legal to use anywhere. What about his
(future) Bluetooth-enabled PDA or notebook--or that crummy microwave
oven he has? I realize official intimidation goes a long way and that
peer pressure may well win out--but what are your plans if it doesn't?
Tom
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<DIV>I'm curious to know whether any of the institutions which have announced
such policies have had them reviewed by their legal counsels.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I'm not a lawyer, but as a holder of a number of commercial and amateur
licenses issued by the FCC, I always thought their (federal) laws regarding the
use of the spectrum anywhere in this country take precedence. The FCC
"Class B Computing Device" (Part 15) notice supplied with our Enterasys
cards suggests several remedies for dealing with interference, but attempting to
deny the use by others of similar devices is not one of them.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So, what do you tell a student who has a 2.4 GHz cordless phone in his
room? The phone presumably has some sort of FCC type-acceptance (Part 15,
again) label on it, making it legal to use anywhere. What about his
(future) Bluetooth-enabled PDA or notebook--or that crummy microwave oven he
has? I realize official intimidation goes a long way and that peer
pressure may well win out--but what are your plans if it doesn't?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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