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Dear EC members,
This note is to inform you of a
resubmission of a (reformatted, slightly
edited version of a) previously approved regulatory
document.
The
original document was approved by the EC in March 2003 for submission to the
US WRC-03 prep process, in
response to a request for input from US government agencies, as a counter to a
paper submitted to the ITU-R by the administration of Canada on behalf of the
Mobile Satellite ("MSS") folks, . (The MSS folks had tried to get their
paper approved as a US contribution to ITU-R and after being rejected by the US,
they "went shopping" and managed to persuade Canada to submit it for
them.) With the frenzy of activity leading up to WRC-03 last summer, the
Canadian paper didn't "get a lot of traction."
This
year, the MSS folks again tried to get the US to support their paper, were again
rejected, and this time their shopping spree ended in Australia, who submitted a
contribution, essentially identical to the Canadian document we opposed before,
on April 02 --- but it didn't appear on the ITU website for several days -- in
fact about 36 hours prior to the submission deadline of this past Wed. for
contributions to the ITU-R WP 4A meeting (14-23 April) where it would be
considered (by a bunch of satellite folks).
Since we opposed the MSS proposals before as
technically flawed (and they could end up being prejudicial to the 802.11a's
future use of the band 5150-5250 MHz - an allocation that many of us fought hard
to get) and there was an extremely tight deadline, I consulted with Paul,
Stuart, and Jim Carlo (for the IEEE-SA) and we collectively decided that it
was appropriate to submit a properly formatted version of the previously
approved material
to the April 14-23 meeting of ITU-R Working Party
4A (under the IEEE's Sector Membership) as a counter
to the Austrailan MSS document .
The document was
slightly modified for appropriate
ITU-R formating and improved readability, but there were no changes to thrust or
substance. The document was approved by IEEE-SA as a contribution to ITU-R
WP4A and submitted electronically right at the submittal deadline this
Wed. (The reason I did not advise you yesterday was that I was asleep, due
to having "pulled an all-nighter" to get the document massaged, approved, and
submitted on time ...)
The
original document that was approved in
March 2003 and the revised
version that was submitted to ITU-R are attached for your
information. I will be attending the WP 4 Ameeting in
Geneva 14 in my role as the IEEE Liaison to
ITU-R to present the document
and support our interests .
Regards,
Carl R.
Stevenson |
18-03-019r1_Canadian_Radiometer_Cmts.doc