Call it one small step toward unifying broadcasting and telecommunications at the CRTC; the Commission plans to unify its numbering and nomenclature over the coming year, to take effect January 1, 2009.
In 2000 and 2001, the CRTC had an integrated numbering for Public Notices and Decisions. You can find an apologetic comment on its website for the irregular sequence of numbers if you look at some of the listings of PN’s from those dates.
This will be different, we are told, as part of an effort to provide greater consistency in the documents issued from both sides of the CRTC.
Perhaps a first step on the long road toward a unified Communications Act and Department of Communications?