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Re: 'Wi-Fi Alliance' is a marketing company that has no official involvement in the spec.

"802.11 is the IEEE name for the specification"

802.11 was the name IEEE applied after-the-fact to AT&T Wavelan/Rangelan 1.6Mb/s networking - this really did work on 14 individual non-interfering channels (11/12/13ISM depending where you were in the world + 1 ham channel (or a 14th if you were in Japan))

802.11b and later friends bore little resemblence to Wavelan.