Re: FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: March 13, 2018 at 7:33:56 AM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Re: FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
> Reply-To: dewayne-net () warpspeed com
>
> [Note:  This comment comes from friend David Reed.  DLH]
>
> From: "dpreed () deepplum com" <dpreed () deepplum com>
> Subject: RE: [Dewayne-Net] FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
> Date: March 12, 2018 at 11:31:09 AM EDT
> To: dewayne () warpspeed com
>
> This is fascinating. Could it be that the idea of "open networks of satellites" are going to start to play the role 
> of WiFi or UWB? Scalable sharing of orbital space, using a simple cooperative protocol? In other words, the first 
> step toward what Vint Cerf championed as the "Interplanetary Internet?
>
> If so, that explains why the FCC id doing the bidding of its masters. Sure, we need a few rules of the road to manage 
> space orbits, etc. That's in *everyone's* public interest.
>
> But do we need the rules to be set by a fully captured regulatory mechanism in the pockets of monopoly capital?
>
> One should ask, why hasn't NASA stepped in to facilitate discussion of rules of the road? Preferably the minimum 
> necessary rules, allowing the most flexibility to innovate and create value.
>
> And one should also ask, on whose behalf is FCC making these choices?
>
> Space, in theory, belongs to all of us. Not governments defined by national boundaries, not the UN, ... it *belongs* 
> to us, just as the Sea does.
>
> It's helpful to have rules (for example, the WiFi rules which extend Part 15's "accept all interference and don't 
> deliberately interfere" to a concrete - listen for energy before you transmit, and transmit using a power and 
> modulation that has the least impact on others. Bran Ferren called this the "Golden Rule". The law of the sea is 
> similar.
>
> One can ask whether the FCC has any legitimate constitutional mandate over space at all. Maybe that should be taken 
> to the (sadly plutocratic) Supreme Court, or even better, a true judicial court that incorporates the interests and 
> fairness to all of the planet?
>
> We should remember that if Swarm launched and operated its network of satellites from the middle of the ocean 
> (remember Pirate Radio Stations in the UK beyond the coastal zone), the US FCC could not touch them. Arguably, 
> there's no one who could legally touch them.
>
> That said, we need rules of the road, like we do for drones. But they should not be written by those who stand to 
> lose their privileges.
>
> > FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
> > The U.S. communications agency says tiny Internet of Things satellites from Swarm Technologies could endanger other 
> > spacecraft
> > By Mark Harris
> > Mar 9 2018
> > <https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/fcc-accuses-stealthy-startup-of-launching-rogue-satellites>
>
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