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Certification for "pre-n" WiFi hardware
The WiFi alliance is going ahead and will start certifying "pre-n" 802.11 devices before the final draft certification is finished. Basically they say that the industry is already producing hardware, not waiting until any "final approval" so they will try and at least get something of a standard going.
"The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced it plans to certify interoperability of Wi-Fi products that include baseline features from the developing IEEE 802.11nA taskgroup of the IEEE 802.11 committee whose goal is to define a standard...
standard in the first half of 2007. This is the first phase in a certification program of the next generation of Wi-Fi products. A second phase brings full alignment with the ratified standard."..more there