Good artical and design arguements but going forward I think getting enterprise IT departments to recognize the value of device management when deploying devices would give more benefits. So to keep it intelligent control and know your devices NIC settings. Typically end-users are not keen on having to deal with settings and such and many times enterprise security policies do not want to hand over the control of which SSIDs users can connect to. Also in regards to latency sensitive applications enterprises would want to know how devices conway 802.11e during voice video and collaboration. A central tool for device NIC management would be handy mayby built into Cisco AnyConnect. Just a thought to a great discussion.