could be given the power to distribute solar energy, or it might be authorized to fix functional standards rather than having distributive powers. As noted in Chapter Seven, States have enormous difficulties in reaching agreement on how to authorize the allocation of resources. At the present the world community lacks experience with the multinational management of technologically-based programs on a global scale. Neither the UN nor the ITU have attempted such activities, and the plan provided in the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea for a Seabed Authority has not received approval on the part of the more than 150 participants in that meeting. The experience of INTELSAT, based as its structure is upon a business as opposed to a bureaucratic model, could be instructive. The precise substantive powers of such an organization will have to be fitted to the mission that will be assigned to it. Agreement on its procedural powers will also pose difficulties. It is safe to suppose that over time there will be increasing demands for the formation of an international space agency. The final success of a SPS will depend on the identification and resolution of important international political-legal issues. These will have to make provisions for the availability of geostationary orbital positions, uninterfered with microwave frequencies, and protection against the harmful effects of ionizing radiation. It will also be necessary to allow such an international organization to have power commensurate with its duty to protect the general well-being of mankind.
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