NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

Tue Jan 5 12:29:06 UTC 2021

That requires cell coverage. 

That requires the person to be capable of receiving the alert at the time (not engrossed in a TV show or game). 

If the mobile wireless networks were sufficient, this whole proceeding wouldn't be needed. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Richard Porter" <richard at pedantictheory.com> 
To: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 10:40:28 PM 
Subject: Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study 

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:25 PM Chris Adams < cma at cmadams.net > wrote: 

Once upon a time, Billy Crook < BCrook at 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). 

4G/LTE/5G networks could be further leveraged for this. In Denton County, TX, USA, you can register to "opt in" to receive weather alerts. We get tornadoes here. I could see better leveraging of that technology than streaming services. It is uncommon to find anyone without a cell phone in the US anymore. 

EMS services in some states leverage private 3G/4G networks for real-time communications. Wider reach in population clusters. 

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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 at cmadams.net > 

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