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If I understood everything, you have to be a Wi-Fi Alliance member in order to develop/contribute/vote on all things WiFi. The smallest membership that allows y
by kevingrahl 8y ago
If I understood everything, you have to be a Wi-Fi Alliance member in order to develop/contribute/vote on all things WiFi. The smallest membership that allows you to participate is US$7,500/year for 2018 (next year it’ll be $7,725/year). And that’s only for small businesses and they won’t have all voting rights. The actual membership is a whopping US$15,000/year ($450 more next year).
It disgusts me to see that in order to improve something that a crapton of people use daily to protect them self, that’s currently broken, you’d have to pay. I didn’t see any mention that individuals can become members on the website of the Wi-Fi Alliance seems to be only businesses can participate.
I’d be alright with some open-source implementation instead.
/rant
- datamingle 8y agoSeems like it would encounter same problem earlier in Wifi history "Early 802.11 products suffered from interoperability problems because the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) had no provision for testing equipment for compliance with its standards." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Alliance#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Alliance#History