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

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Masataka Ohta" <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
> To: nanog () nanog org

> Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> > the Commission shall complete an
> > inquiry to examine the feasibility of updating the Emergency
> > Alert System to enable or improve alerts to consumers provided
> > through the internet, including through streaming services.
>
> It is trivially easy to have a dedicated UDP port to receive
> broadcast packets for such purposes, as "through streaming
> services" is not the requirement.

Though, sadly, 911/udp is taken, and by someone who may not exist
anymore.

Who owns the <1024 post list these days, IANA?

> As streaming services are often offered from distant places
> including foreign locations, generations of emergency alert
> packets *MUST* be responsibility of *LOCAL* ISPs.
>
> A problem is that home routers may filter the broadcast
> packets from ISPs, but the routers may be upgraded or
> some device to snoop the alert packets may be placed between
> ISPs and the routers.

Yup; it's messy, and in many many different ways.  Won't be a snapshot 
rollout.  Not a bad idea, though, if implemented correctly; time to dig
out my notes, I guess.

Cheers,
-- jra
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