rulemaking

How many aspects of your daily life are determined by insurance companies and private rulemaking bodies?

Where was the pressure to change this rulemaking procedure over the last X years before this particular issue came up?

People had a day in public comment on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in this matter last year by the FCC.

It's not honest to pretend that this rulemaking process is somehow different and worse from the normal one that has been in place for years.

Executive orders are part of the federal rulemaking process.

The FCC has an open rulemaking proceeding that would expand these requirements beyond the 5 GHz U-NII devices covered by the OET document to all Part 15 devices.

Some of the early SpaceShip One clearances were a real nightmare for Scaled Composites, I don't know if it was just a lack of rulemaking or general government ineptitude.

They probably can't do anything to help in the short term, because their powers are circumscribed by Congress, but you could try asking them how best to document your experience in a way that would influence future rulemaking.

See paragraphs 45 and 46 on page 18 of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 15-92): We propose to modify the SDR-related requirements in Part 2 of our rules based in part on the current Commission practices regarding software configuration control.

This is not a law, and may not even be administrative rulemaking (depending on what exactly they issued) Of course, even if it was, you have a mechanism to challenge it if they hold you to it: the courts.

Oddly, while the EFF has multiple submissions to the copyright office as part of the open rulemaking process, and they're available on the EFF website, I've seen little acknowledgement of the fact the the Copyright Office is conducting a 3 year open rulemaking exercise on this topic, or about the Congressional committee that's re-examining copyright issues.

I agree we need a formal right to privacy in the form of a constitutional amendment rather than expecting justices on the Supreme Court to discover one in the 'penumbra' of other amendments; rulemaking should not take place in the shaodws.

But there is nothing at all abnormal about it -- this is simply the process that we call "notice-and-comment rulemaking" which Congress enshrined in law almost 100 years ago when it passed the Administrative Procedures Act.

After the comment period closes and the Commission has reviewed and analyzed the comments received, we decide whether to proceed with the rulemaking we proposed, issue a new or modified proposal, or take no action on the proposal".

Rulemaking fills in the blanks left deliberately by Congress.