Someone at the Hayward field office referred him to Washington. AB6GQ has been advised that the League is going to 'undertake an educational effort' about which something will appear in QST after the first of the year. Frederick advises he is going to wait for further word through the League chain of command for his next, if any, action regarding packet bulletins. Because the spark which created this particular packet 'crisis of the day' was a statement to other amateurs from an Official Observer Coordinator, and because there was a reported exchange of correspondence with an FCC branch chief, Greg Jones, President of TAPR, received numerous phone calls asking for TAPR's position on this matter. To be succinct, most of the flame wars and great debates over permissible communications exhibit a problem with semantics, not a lack of specificity in the rules.
Packet is no more or less privileged than any other form of amateur communications.
97.3 includes a list of definitions for the terms used in the document. Part 97 defines an 'informational bulletin' as a one-way transmission to hams of a message of subject matter composed solely of interest to the amateur service. To conclude that all of this means that a packet bulletin must be confined to amateur-only subject material is using terribly convoluted logic. Except for unproto, their is no one-way packet mode. It takes two to tango.