sharing. Such sharing would depend on entering into suitable commercial relationships. Such States aware of the sharing expectation, and possibly experiencing present and probably future shortages in energy, might be induced to cooperate now in the hope of obtaining future benefits. If, as is believed to be the case, there is a present urgency to develop reliable sources of solar energy, in order to avoid ongoing or expected adversity, the members of the world community would be more receptive to proposals for a SPS. It is clear, if solar energy in the future is to be obtained on a "wholesale" basis from the space environment, that there will be a need to effect ways to distribute such energy to users. Since the resource is an international resource, it may be anticipated that the distribution will take place internationally and that the distribution will be the product of the decision of an international institution. It is possible that such an organization would be authorized to allocate microwave frequencies to the most desirable social uses. For example, it might have to determine whether there was a greater need for energy than for the transmission of words or symbols. That institution will presumably be more than a set of laws. It will take the form of an international organization based on a charter which will allocate legal powers and duties to the organization. The organization could be a new one, or it could be the product of the revision of an existing entity. A critical issue before national decision makers would be the powers of such a body. These could range all the way from having the power to grant orbital allocations to a simple coordination of orbital slots planned to be used by member States. It
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