Sen. Conrad Burns' (R-MT) new telecommunications agenda, the so-called "tech seven," places heavy emphasis on two consumer protection issues - online privacy and spamming - and on exploring ways to accelerate the deployment of high-speed Internet access in rural areas. The package is similar to the "digital dozen" agenda he introduced in the last Congress (REC, April 20, 1999, p. 13). But Burns has expanded the scope of his previous initiative to address two issues that are certain to draw considerable attention from U.S. lawmakers this year: developing a national spectrum management plan and reviewing the way the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) assigns Internet domain name suffixes.
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