Chairman of TC-RES Sub-Technical Committee RES 10- High Performance Radio LANs
Jan Kruys
Lucent Technologies, WDN
3431 JZ, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands
+ 31 3402 97529/fax ..555
email: jan.kruys@att.com
ETSI RES 10/96/  

To: 		Mr. Victor Hayes, chairman of IEEE 80.11

Cc: 		Mr P. Chadwick, vice chairman of ETSI RES 10
			Mr. Chr. van Diepenbeek, chairman of ETSI TC RES

Date:	February 19, 1996

Subject:	IEEE 802.11 draft standard

Reference:	You letter of  February 2, 1996
Enclosures:	none

Dear Mr. Hayes,

RES 10 has noted your request to verify whether the referenced standard is within the rules applicable in Europe.

In responding to this request, RES 10 notes that:
1.	the rules for spectrum utilisation in the 2.4 GHz ISM band have set by CEPT (in Recommendation T/R 10-01);
2.	that RES 10 has the responsibility for the type approval standard for wireless LAN devices operating according to the above regulation (ETS 300 328, Wideband data transmission systems, Technical Characteristics and test conditions for data transmission equipment operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band and using spread spectrum modulation techniques);
3.	that ETS 300 328 has been publicly available since the end of 1994;
4.	that many members of IEEE 802.11 are also members of RES 10;
5.	that verification of the above draft standard for compliance with the above regulation and type approval standard is not in the scope of RES 10.  

In view of the above, it seems appropriate that verification of compliance is carried out by members of IEEE 802.11.

Yours Sincerely,

Jan Kruys
Chairman of ETSI STC RES 10.