IP: Bluetooth story

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:42:40 -0800
>From: Phil Agre <pagre@alpha.oac.ucla.edu>
>To: dave@farber.net
>Subject: Bluetooth story
>
>My Bluetooth friends are pissed at the asiabiztech.com article you
>forwarded to IP yesterday.  Being corporate they can't speak openly
>but here are a few anonymous comments from one of them, maybe with
>something official to follow.
>
>
>Some real simple problems include --
>
>The 1.1 spec was released March 1, not the end of March.
>
>The purpose of unplug-fests is to find and fix interoperability problems,
>usually right there, right now.
>
>The first Bluetooth devices were always expected to be simple cable
>replacement for devices which would be paired one time and remain paired for
>their lifetime.  (headphone and cell phone, cell phone and hands-free car
>kit, mouse and computer, keyboad and computer.
>
>"They say that what they have done is inevitable given the sluggish pace,
>caused by repeated episodes of confusion and bickering, that has been an
>unfortunate characteristic of the official standardization process."
>
>The above sounds like sour grapes for them not getting what they wanted
>during the official standardization process.
>
>I am too tired right now to even begin to untangle the logic in the section
>on qualification and when did Toshiba start making cell phones?



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