Technical Advisory Council

The Technical Advisory Council (TAC) is a federal advisory committee of the Federal Communications Commission and the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). Its mandate is to provide the FCC with technical advice in such rapidly growing fields as cable television, telephony, and the Internet.

History

TAC held its first meeting on April 17, 2003, under the leadership of TAC Chairman Dr. Robert Lucky, a former Bell Labs researcher.

Members

TAC is primarily composed of representatives from major American telecommunications and media corporations. The current committee, TAC IV, was created on November 19, 2004, and has members from such companies as Cisco, Sprint, Motorola, Google, Comcast, Microsoft, HP, Verizon, Qualcomm, Fox, Bellsouth, and Apple Computer.

Vint Cerf, the co-creator of the Internet protocol TCP/IP, has served on several instances of the committee.

gollark: Finite set of programs doesn't mean non-TC, does it?
gollark: Just enumerate all possible strings in order, silly.
gollark: Or "possibly TC but you can't know unless you throw ridiculously insane amounts of computing power at it".
gollark: Hmm, perhaps if you make it use the most recent likely-true-but-hard-to-prove maths problem somehow...
gollark: The twin prime conjecture, say?


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