[IP] FCC OSP

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>

[Note:  This item comes from reader Bill Lane.  DLH]

At 6:49 AM -0700 6/12/03, William Lane wrote:
>From: "William Lane" <William.Lane@fcc.gov>
>To: "Dewayne Hendricks (.internet)" <dewayne@dandin.com>
>Subject: FCC OSP
>Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 06:49:04 -0700
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>Dewayne
>
>FYI from Comm Daily's summary of a press conference that Jane did yesterday.
>
>       Bill
>
>The FCC's new Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis (OSP)
>operates like an internal consultant, watching trends and targeting
>emerging policy issues to help the Commission plan for the future
>and make better informed decisions, its chief Jane Mago told
>reporters Wed. She said information gathered by OSP, which also was
>likened to a think tank, was shared with FCC commissioners and
>bureau chiefs on a regular basis. Some research is done to support a
>specific FCC proceeding, some is requested by a commissioner and
>some is done proactively to keep the agency up to date on trends,
>she said. The office focused on a wide range of areas, from
>universal service to digital rights management, Mago said: "We're
>trying to catch the wave before it hits us." For example, in the
>broadband area OSP is "watching trends" in deployment and usage in
>the U.S. and internationally, she said. She said OSP did research on
>economic trends to support the agency's recent media ownership
>proceeding.
>
>Much of the results of agency research remain private, with reports
>to the chairman and commissioners on a weekly or biweekly basis,
>Mago said. However, it can be seen in occasional White Papers
>released by OSP and is evident in many agency orders, she said. OSP
>Deputy Chief Kathleen Ham said the office also handled requests for
>information from other agencies and provided "some expertise" to the
>Office of Management & Budget when the White House was developing
>President Bush's budget message, which had included a proposal for
>spectrum fees. In answer to a question, Mago said OSP to some extent
>forwarded Chmn. Powell's agenda because it emphasized strategic
>planning, one of his goals. Asked what was new, what OSP was excited
>about, she said technology developments in unlicensed
>communications. Asked how much power she had to, say, kill a
>program, Mago said she could make a recommendation "that perhaps we
>should not go that route," but that was as far as it went. Compared
>with her many jobs elsewhere at the FCC, this one offers "the luxury
>of time to actually think about something," Mago said.

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