Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

Google and Apple already have push systems that can be the model for how they push out alerts for these services, if 
not just use those very systems. 

Roku, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, etc. can work out similar systems. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Chris Adams" <cma () cmadams net> 
To: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 10:23:32 PM 
Subject: Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study 

Once upon a time, Billy Crook <BCrook () unrealservers net> said: 
> On a technical note (having read the comment about overloading the system) 
> could a system like DNS help handle this? 

I wouldn't think so, because some of the important alerts are very time 
sensitive. It's been mentioned several times in this thread that the 
earthquake alerts are on the order of 10 seconds in advance. I know 
someone that survived a tornado by a few seconds (the time it took to 
get out of bed and get to the bedroom door as the tornado dropped the 
second floor of the house on the bed). 

To be useful for the worst events, they need to be push, and push in 
very short order. And since those are the alerts most likely to be 
life-saving, those are what the system needs to be built for (or what's 
the point). 

And to the point of the weather service sending out more alerts than in 
the past: yes, they do. To some extent, it's better radars and software 
to find hazards; they're also learning all the time to better identify 
what is and is not a threat (so there are storms that might have had a 
warning 10 years ago that might not today). But I'll take extra alerts 
now and then... a friend died in a tornado years ago because the warning 
came after it was on the ground (and probably after they were dead). 

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Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>