John W. Linville wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:01:57PM -0800, David Rosky wrote:
(Telecommunications Certification Body). The FCC also maintains
a mechanism whereby certification-related questions can be asked
directly of them and whereby answers to previous questions can be
Can you point me at this? What restrictions (if any) are there on
who can access this information?
Yes, the main page for the Knowlege database is:
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/kdb/index.cfm
This should also contain links for submitting a question. I don't
believe there are any restrictions on who can search the
knowlege-base or submit questions.
The FCC OET main page is http://www.fcc.gov/oet/, which has
links to other information regarding equipment authorization.
The FCC rules can't cover every possible aspect of system
operation. In our case, there was a bit of back-and-forth
discussion with the TCB until everything was understood and
everyone agreed on the interpretation of the rules, and our
system is much less complicated than WiFi.
The important thing is that FCC certification is
basically a technical process that takes place mainly between
engineers and often there is an iterative process that goes
on to determine what will work and whether a given system meets
the intent of the rules.
Dave
it is not possible to say (except for someone at Intel) whether
it was Intel, or the certifying TCB who decided that making it
binary-only would be necessary to meet the FCC requirements
of being reasonably tamper-proof.
Perhaps someone from Intel can answer this?
Thanks for the good information!
John
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