IP: FCC Meeting Agenda

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: Robert Cannon <cannon@DC.NET>
>
>Something is placed on the FCC Agenda when it is largely a resolved
>issue.  At the meeting, the Commissioners enter their opinions and
>statements for the record, but the decision has been made.  This is not
>like a hearing.  There is not testimony from the public trying to change
>opinions.  If an Order is being released, comments from the public have
>already been collected.  Occassionally things do happen, but usually not
>at the meeting itself but instead in the last few minutes coming up to
>the meeting.  (The meeting will be streamed live on real audio)
>
>First, let me say I know nothing about this particular item.  I am
>talking only in the *most *general* of terms.
>
>This particular agenda item, according to the meeting notice, is a
>notice of a proposed rule making concerning how carriers should be
>compensated for the exchange of traffic.  These types of issues have
>been the subject of open proceedings for years at the FCC.  Take for
>example reciprocal compensation, that proceeding has been open in one
>form or another since 1996.  http://www.cybertelecom.org/rcomp.htm#fcc
>The FCC released a series of working papers on this issue recently.
>http://www.cybertelecom.org/rcomp.htm  It is not as if this issue is a
>surprise, catching industry off guard with no opportunity to
>participate.
>
>In addition, this item is a notice of proposed rulemaking.  The FCC is
>not announcing any new rules, instead, the FCC is announcing PROPOSED
>rules.  This starts the comment period.  You will have the comment
>period in which to make comments.  After that, the FCC almost always
>accepts comments through the Ex Parte rules.
>http://www.cybertelecom.org/faqs/fcc101.htm  You can file comments or
>meet with FCC staff as long as you file something for the record noting
>the ex parte with a summary of your argument.
>
>I might also note that the average time frame that an FCC proceeding is
>open, and comments is accepted from the public, is, well, I dont know,
>long.  Let's look at what is open.
>http://www.cybertelecom.org/regulat.htm
>* The Open Access NOI has been open since Nov 2000
>* Non-Accounting Safeguards Order Remand has been open since Nov 2000
>* The Sec. 255 NOI on IP Telephony has been open since Sept 1999
>* The Access Charge NOI has been open since Dec 1996
>* The ACTA Petition has been open since Spring 1996
>
>All of these are open proceedings in which you could be filing comments
>or meeting with FCC staff in ex parte meetings.  Are you suggesting that
>these time frames are too short?
>
>-B
>
>David Lesher wrote:
> >
> > Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 14 April 2001, Robert Cannon wrote:
> > > > 
> http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Miscellaneous/Public_Notices/Agenda/2001/agenda.html
> > > >
> > > > April 12, 2001
> > > >
> > > > FCC TO HOLD OPEN COMMISSION MEETING THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2001
> > > >
> > >
> > > The cheapest airfare SFO to IAD on April 18 2001  $721
> > > The cheapest airfare SFO to IAD on April 21 2001  $270
> >
> > You want SWA in BWI and take the MARC train down.
> > But I agree, you need 7 days notice for that fare.
> >
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