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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (21271)	5/6/2007 8:37:55 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Respond to of 46821

Hi Frank, >>The FCC has aggressively replaced all of its seasoned people over the past couple of years, especially its seasoned technologists. One wonders whether the same process being used to replace career civil servants with politically-loyal Republicans has been going on there as it has been at the Justice Department, apparently.<< The Bureau Chief's position is political, and changes with the Administration. The career Vice Chief's political protection/cover - that used to be provided by their bosses - is what has gone away. Lose that trust, and you lose the workers. Michael Powell provided excellent cover for Ed Thomas, and effectively supported the effort to rebuild engineering capacity in OET. >>"In particular, the relatively modest proceeding focused on improving receiver quality to track what modern electronic systems are easily able to do would have made a huge improvement in eliminating much of the discussion about "interference", since much of the regulatory argumentation in practice is about "harm" to systems that are obsolete or hypothetical, such as ancient black and white tube television receivers designed in a way that no manufacturer would ever design such a system.<< 'Scientists' utterly failed on Interference Temperature. David cannot point to any scientist's work in the proceeding that shows the validity of the Interference Temperature concept, which inherently depended on receiver performance standards that do not exist. Receivers with omni antennas do not report the spatial distribution of interference. >>"Implementing policy intelligently needs a core of scientific expertise and scientific debate and discussion. The FCC seems to be controlled by economists and lawyers who do not want input from scientists - instead they seem to like input from high-tech corporate leaders, who may or may not be scientists, but definitely have points of view not driven by science."<< It is the government that judges the 'reasonableness' of the scientist's presentations. Scientists have to produce useful work, and it is their task to communicate (Communication: the receiver recreates the thought of the sender) the meaning of their work in terms actionable by the government. petere