On 02/01/2013 13:44, Carlos M. Martinez wrote:
Radio spectrum allocation was a critical task at the time (it still is, although the world doesn't depend that much on it anymore), and one of the task the ITU actually has performed very well, being a positive and constructive player. I don't know if it's true, but I've read in the past that one of the first events that brought up the need for spectrum regulation, and thus ushered in the role of the ITU in it was the Titanic disaster.
Yes, there was chaos until the CCIR (ITU-R) process of international radio regulation came into being. However it remains to be seen what will happen as the various computerized "dynamic" forms of frequency co-ordination (in all their forms) replace the essentially static frequency co- ordination method that has prevailed over the past 100 years, and as SDR deployment allows radios to use more dynamic/ agile waveforms than were the possible up until quite recently. Just as the Internet has challenged the ITU-T model of operation, the computerization of radio (with the help of the Internet) will to some degree or other challenge the ITU-R model of operation. - Stewart