For those of you that are unaware, it is possible to contact the State Department to get involved with ITU activities and be added to their mailing lists to discuss these positions.
In addition, if you work for a largish company, they probably have a regulatory department which may already have someone involved in ITU standardisation activities, or already involved with the State Department, or involved with the FCC. So it would be a good idea to hunt around internally (contact legal and ask them if they know of anyone dealing with regulatory issues) and then liaise with that person. In particular, if your employer is a telco, it is unlikely that the regulatory liaison knows anything about the self-regulatory RIR system, and maybe some education is in order. I believe the ITU intends to set themselves up as an alternative to the RIRs with a large IANA allocation, if they can get it. --Michael Dillon