[RFI] ARLB025 FCC Seeks Comments on Technological Advisory Council Recommendations

[Dave Cole (NK7Z)]

Lets chat about this...

I don't see a lot of things good for Ham Radio in this, in fact I don't 
see anything dealing with ham radio...

Am I missing things?

I have done two reads of it, and will continue to read it again a few 
times.  I have to let the "Government speak" settle in before I can 
understand all of this document.  Any other interpretations would help.

73s and thanks,
Dave
NK7Z
http://www.nk7z.net

On 12/05/2017 12:56 PM, Dave Cole (NK7Z) wrote:
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> Subject: ARLB025 FCC Seeks Comments on Technological Advisory Council 
> Recommendations
> Date: Tue,  5 Dec 2017 15:42:51 -0500 (EST)
> From: ARRL Web site <memberlist at www.arrl.org>
> To: dave at nk7z.net
> 
> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB025
> ARLB025 FCC Seeks Comments on Technological Advisory Council
> Recommendations
> 
> ZCZC AG25
> QST de W1AW  ARRL Bulletin 25  ARLB025
>  From ARRL Headquarters  Newington CT  December 5, 2017
> To all radio amateurs
> SB QST ARL ARLB025
> ARLB025 FCC Seeks Comments on Technological Advisory Council
> Recommendations
> 
> In a Public Notice released on December 1, the FCC's Office of
> Engineering and Technology (OET) has invited comments by January 31,
> 2018, on a wide-ranging series of Technological Advisory Council
> (TAC) recommendations that, if implemented, could alter the spectrum
> policy regulatory landscape - especially with respect to
> interference resolution and enforcement. An advisory body, the TAC's
> membership includes several Amateur Radio licensees. ARRL will file
> comments in the proceeding, ET Docket 17-340.
> 
> The Public Notice is in PDF format on the web at,
> http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1201/DA-17-1165A1.pdf 
> 
> .
> 
> The TAC has called on the FCC to:
> 
> * Consider adopting the spectrum management principles spelled out
> in the Council's Basic Spectrum Principles white papers of March
> 2014 and December 2015, and "set clear expectations about the
> affected system's capabilities regarding interference, such as harm
> claim thresholds."
> 
> * More broadly adopt risk-informed interference assessment and
> statistical service rules. "In judging whether to allow new radio
> service rules, the TAC observes that the Commission has to balance
> the interests of incumbents, new entrants, and the public," the
> Public Notice explained. "The process of analyzing the tradeoffs
> between the benefits of a new service and the risks to incumbents
> has, to date, been essentially qualitative."
> 
> * Implement "a next-generation architecture" to resolve
> interference, and establish a public database of past radio-related
> enforcement activities. The TAC also recommended that the FCC
> "incorporate interference hunters in the [interference] resolution
> process."
> 
> The TAC spelled out a set of three "Interference Realities," which,
> in part, assert that harmful interference "is affected by the
> characteristics of both a transmitting service and a nearby
> receiving service in frequency, space, or time," and that radio
> services should expect occasional service degradation or
> interruption."
> 
> The TAC also posed three "Responsibilities of [Radio] Services that,
> in part, state that "receivers are responsible for mitigating
> interference outside their assigned channels" and that "transmitters
> are responsible for minimizing the amount of their transmitted
> energy that appears outside their assigned frequencies and licensed
> areas." The TAC acknowledged that the FCC, by and large, does not
> regulate receiving systems.
> 
> Another three principles under "Regulatory Requirements and Actions"
> the TAC suggested that the FCC may "apply interference limits to
> quantify rights of protection from harmful interference." According
> to the Public Notice, the TAC "has recommended interference limits
> as a method for the Commission to communicate the limits of
> protection to which systems are entitled, without mandating receiver
> performance specifications." The TAC called for a "quantitative
> analysis of interactions between services" before the FCC could
> "make decisions regarding levels of protection," The OET said.
> 
> "[T]he TAC believes the principles can be applied to all systems and
> result in an optimal solution for each service," the Public Notice
> said. The TAC has suggested that the FCC not base its rules on
> exceptional events and worst-case scenarios but on reality.
> 
> "The TAC recommends that the Commission start soon, and start small,
> and not attempt a major overhaul of its regulatory approach," the
> Public Notice said.
> NNNN
> /EX
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