or the needs of the general public, or commerce, and industry for such energy; whether it would have the same powers in relation to the non- equatorial States; whether it would possess powers in the air space and in the space environment so that a single regime would exist for the area above Earth; whether it should be given dispute-resolving powers, and others. From the procedural point of view it would be necessary to determine whether it would follow a business as opposed to a bureaucratic model. The former might allocate greater voting rights to States investing the larger amounts of money and effort in the SPS. The latter might follow the practices in the UN of one country-one vote. Many procedural complexities would have to be worked out. The present trend should be taken into account. This has been for the acceptance of the principle of sovereign equality and equality of voting. Such a possibility might make the entity less attractive to the space-resource States, but this would have to be studied. Such States might conclude that an essentially universal entity would not serve their best interests. Thus, they might be willing to consider a limited-membership institution. Or, presumably, the distribution of uses of the space environment resources could be effected by a series of bilateral arrangements. It is probable that the use up to the present of such bodies as the UN and the ITU would preclude such a possibility. On the other hand, there is a respectable view that the UN may become overly politicized in their assessments of the uses of world resources. This would possibly suggest the consideration of alternative institutions.
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