On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Dick Carroll; wrote:
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You're surely aware of the fact that an existing law/rule/regulation is
effective during any period of time required to change or othewise update it
to comply with prevailing changes which effect its meaning. Any scheme
othewise would invite the very sort of chaos these people are planning.

Does the FCC see it thusly? You can bet on it.

1) That does not give them an unlimited amount of time to act on the change.

2) That does not justify applicability of the dependent regulation beyond the
time of the change of regulation it depends on. It becomes a regulation that
cannot be relied upon as authority (after the date of the underlying change).

3) That implies that the regulation supersedes international agreements and
treaties. Actually, treaties and international agreements supersede the laws
of the countries party to the agreement or treaty.