Team 548 Einstein Statement

[qnetjoe]

Originally Posted by DMetalKong

I think that breaking things could be acceptable for use in FRC if the need is strong enough. As long as only firmware is changing, and not hardware, the cost of deployment would not be as great as an entirely custom solution..

There is really no sense in reinventing the wheel. IEEE has been working on protected management frames for a long time. There is a standard called 802.11w-2009 that does this and it was ratified in 2009 and was recently superseded by 802.11-2012 which was just the merging of ten amendments together to help prevent forking.

The next step in the process would be to find hardware that meets FIRST budget and that meets these standard.

just my two cents

If you want to track the 802.11 WG progress/projects here a good link to start off with

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/1..._Timelines.htm