Mesh is getting real IEEE attention
I will continue to say that wireless mesh networks are the future. This article is demonstrating more of the momentum picking up. I have to admit that although this looks promising, I am not convinced that WDS is the solution that is going to dominate. I can be convinced though … and I know that mesh is inevitable … in some form or fashion.

Mesh Group Approved by IEEE. IEEE approves formation of mesh task group for 802.11 protocols: The IEEE has approved the formation of a Task Group for fulfilling the promise of the wireless distribution system (WDS) that’s been part of 802.11 since the beginning, Robert Moskowitz of TruSecure’s ICSA Labs wrote in to tell us. The mesh task group will work inside of the 802.11 Working Group to take the extremely vague specification for the WDS and provide a protocol for auto-configuring paths between APs over self-configuring multi-hop topologies in a WDS to support both broadcast/multicast and unicast traffic in an ESS Mesh, according to the group formation proposal that was approved. [Wi-Fi Networking News]