Hi, On Fri, 2021-01-01 at 17:07 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > The House on Monday and the Senate on Friday have overriden the > President's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act for > Fiscal Year 2021 passing it into law. > > Among the NDAA's various sections, it includes the Reliable > Emergency > Alert Distribution Improvement (READI) Act. The READI Act includes > a > study and report for Emergency Alerts via the internet and streaming > services. > > > SEC. 9201. RELIABLE EMERGENCY ALERT DISTRIBUTION IMPROVEMENT. > [...] > (e) INTERNET AND ONLINE STREAMING SERVICES EMERGENCY ALERT > EXAMINATION.— > (1) STUDY.—Not later than 180 days after the date of > enactment of this Act, and after providing public notice and > opportunity for comment, 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.
Just to be clear: this is talking about IP traffic, not things like SMS-CB, right? When there are already cell broadcast alerts, I have the feeling that adding alerts to IP traffic (however that would be supposed to work) wouldn't add that much coverage… Cheers, Sander
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