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Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study
From: Max Harmony via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 20:43:03 -0500
On 02 Jan 2021, at 19.18, Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:
I think the challenge here is that there's a category of people who don't have cell phones, who don't have cable TV, but receive content over their internet connection. I happen to live with someone like that, so I know it's a non-zero portion of the population.
Emergency alerts are also on OTA TV (and radio), not just cable. People whose sole communications device is a computer can subscribe to FEMA'S IPAWS feed. People who can't (or don't want to) do that can use a weather radio (despite the name, NWS broadcasts all hazards alerts, not just weather). The most likely answer to "how do we get streaming services to provide emergency alerts?" is to make them redistribute the IPAWS feed and update their software to make the updates human-readable. It would probably be cheaper to just tell people where to find free IPAWS software instead of making every streaming service add the feature, and, as a last resort, give people who need them free weather radios.
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- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study, (continued)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Mark Delany (Jan 03)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Michael Thomas (Jan 03)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Ask Bjørn Hansen (Jan 03)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Michael Thomas (Jan 03)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Ask Bjørn Hansen (Jan 05)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Andy Brezinsky (Jan 03)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Michael Thomas (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Michael Thomas (Jan 03)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Matthew Petach (Jan 02)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Max Harmony via NANOG (Jan 02)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Matthew Petach (Jan 02)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Max Harmony via NANOG (Jan 02)