----- Original Message ----- > From: "Masataka Ohta" <mo...@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 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
