Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, William Herrin said: > Ordinary ionization-based smoke detectors use a 10-year lithium > battery, which is about the same lifespan as the americium-based > detector circuit as it begins to decay into neptunium. Also, some detectors are wired to household 120VAC service, so the b

Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-14 Thread Mel Beckman
Message - >>> From: "William Herrin" >>> To: "jra" >>> Cc: b...@theworld.com, nanog@nanog.org >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 11:52:47 PM >>> Subject: Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and >>

Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-13 Thread bzs
Herrin" > > To: "jra" > > Cc: b...@theworld.com, nanog@nanog.org > > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 11:52:47 PM > > Subject: Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and > > Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Stu

End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-13 Thread bzs
(Topic at hand was just building an emergency alert system into smoke detectors rather than try to come up with some complex internet-oriented design.) On January 14, 2021 at 03:56 j...@baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) wrote: > Last time I looked, consumer residential smoke detectors were still ru

Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ry 13, 2021 11:52:47 PM > Subject: Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and > Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study) > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 7:58 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >> Last time I looked, consumer residential smoke detectors were still runni

Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-13 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 7:58 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Last time I looked, consumer residential smoke detectors were still running > off 9V alkaline batteries, which are expected to run the device for 6 months > of 1/99 duty cycle (or less, probably *way* less). Ordinary ionization-based smoke

End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: b...@theworld.com > On January 4, 2021 at 21:19 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu (Valdis Klētnieks) wrote: > > First, that means your smoke alarm batteries run down faster, which is > > a major issue. > > That's the sort of argument I label "all sign, no magnitude". >

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

2021-01-07 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Chris Adams" > Aren't the cell-based emergency alerts on all cell phones, not just > smartphones? CMAS/WEA uses SMS Cell Broadcast. I assume the SMS firmware on the phone has to know what to do about those, and I don't know how far that knowledge goes back

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

2021-01-07 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:27:07AM +1300, Mark Foster wrote: > I respect this in principle, but hyperbole serves no-one - a smartphone > only creates a "morass of privacy/security issues" if you let it. You can't be serious. Have you paid *any* attention to what's been going on in this ecosystem

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

2021-01-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Brandon Martin wrote: but harder to understand for people who lack precise knowledge on what computers and OSes are. Hi, embedded developer here who spends a considerable amount of time writing firmware for "bare metal" systems with "no OS". I did it with a Z80 computer soldered by myself.

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

2021-01-06 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/5/21 7:29 PM, Chris Adams wrote: I don't know if an unsubscribed cell phone gets the emergency alerts (I know you are supposed to be able to call 911 from any cell phone, even if not carrying paid service). If so, that'd be another cheap way to get alerts. They pretty much universally sho

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

2021-01-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Mark Foster said: > So one has to ask at some level, whether the addition of emergency alerts and > the ability to maybe do some simple tasks on the fly when needed (which need > not include social media, or the use of location tracking services, or even > mobile data most of

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

2021-01-06 Thread Mark Foster
I respect this in principle, but hyperbole serves no-one - a smartphone only creates a "morass of privacy/security issues" if you let it. A basic smartphone can be had for less than $100 USD, which would give you calling, text messaging and emergency alerts. You don't need to spend many hundreds

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

2021-01-06 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 09:08:06PM -0600, Billy Crook wrote: > Then again how many people would benefit from adding this to online > streaming, but don't already have cellphones that have emergency alert > popups that get their attention. The kind of people who don't have > smartphones are going t

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

2021-01-05 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
>> On Jan 3, 2021, at 13:57, Michael Thomas wrote: >> >>> I just sent some mail to the myshakes folks at UCB asking if they have an >>> achitecture/network document. In their case for earthquakes it need to be >>> less than ~10 seconds so they are really pushing the limit. If they get >>> back

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

2021-01-05 Thread Matthew Petach
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 4:31 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Matthew Petach said: > [...] > > I don't know if an unsubscribed cell phone gets the emergency alerts (I > know you are supposed to be able to call 911 from any cell phone, even > if not carrying paid service). If so, that'd

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

2021-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Petach said: > If we're going to postulate every citizen of the country having a cell > phone, > then we should first postulate the system whereby the government provides > them free to every citizen, with a minimum level of access provided free to > all users. You are g

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

2021-01-05 Thread Matthew Petach
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:11 PM Billy Crook wrote: > Then again how many people would benefit from adding this to online > streaming, but don't already have cellphones that have emergency alert > popups that get their attention. The kind of people who don't have > smartphones are going to be the

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

2021-01-05 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:48:47 -0500, b...@theworld.com said: > How much faster? If it took one minute of battery life off a 10 year > battery would that be a problem? 30 minutes? I suspect the proper time units are closer to months rather than minutes. > How much power would a bit of circuitry wa

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

2021-01-05 Thread Jim
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 2:50 PM wrote: > Could we make the battery just a little more powerful? How much power > would a bit of circuitry waiting for a "turn on! there's a new message > coming in!" need? [] If your network connectivity, or web browser, or cellular reception stops working;

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

2021-01-05 Thread bzs
On January 4, 2021 at 21:19 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu (Valdis Klētnieks) wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:33:10 -0500, b...@theworld.com said: > > Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a > > simple radio receiver? > > First, that means your smoke alarm batteries ru

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

2021-01-05 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/4/21 9:07 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: > but harder to understand for people who lack precise > knowledge on what computers and OSes are. Hi, embedded developer here who spends a considerable amount of time writing firmware for "bare metal" systems with "no OS". I have fairly high confidence th

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

2021-01-05 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:11 PM Billy Crook wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:13 PM Matt Hoppes < > mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > >> Just give users the ability to select what categories/severities they >> want to see, so I don't get disrupted every time there's a scary rain storm >>

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

2021-01-05 Thread Livingood, Jason via NANOG
> If YouTube can mash back-to-back unskippable ads on demand into content, > they can put an emergency alert in there, and I bet people would like them > more than the ads. +1 to that. If a real-time ad exchange can run a market auction to serve you highly targeted ads in fractions of a second

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

2021-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
tions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Richard Porter" To: "NANOG list" Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 10:40:28 PM Subject: Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study On Mon, Jan

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

2021-01-05 Thread Mike Hammett
Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Chris Adams" 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 said: > On a t

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

2021-01-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Richard Porter" > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:25 PM Chris Adams wrote: >> 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

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

2021-01-04 Thread Richard Porter
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:25 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Billy Crook 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 > se

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

2021-01-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Billy Crook 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 th

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

2021-01-04 Thread Billy Crook
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:13 PM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > How would that even work? Force a pop up into web traffic? What if the > end users is using an app on a phone? Mitch please If YouTube can mash back-to-back unskippable ads on demand into content, the

OT: StarterWare (was: Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-04 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 11:07 +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Mike Hammett wrote: > > No one cares about old hardware when solving a modern problem. > Modern examples do exist, for example: > > https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/StarterWare But get in quick - the site will be removed on 1

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

2021-01-04 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:33:10 -0500, b...@theworld.com said: > Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a > simple radio receiver? First, that means your smoke alarm batteries run down faster, which is a major issue. I didn't bother thinking past that show-stopper, others

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

2021-01-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: No one cares about old hardware when solving a modern problem. Modern examples do exist, for example: https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/StarterWare StarterWare is a free software development package that provides no-OS platform support for AR

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

2021-01-04 Thread Richard Porter
Comment inline On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 5:32 PM J. Hellenthal via NANOG wrote: > Comment inline > > -- > J. Hellenthal > > The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says > a lot about anticipated traffic volume. > > > On Jan 4, 2021, at 14:35, b...@theworld.com wrote:

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

2021-01-04 Thread J. Hellenthal via NANOG
Comment inline -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. > On Jan 4, 2021, at 14:35, b...@theworld.com wrote: > >  > Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a > simple radio

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

2021-01-04 Thread bzs
Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a simple radio receiver? Why does anyone think this must be a feature of the internet when, as people here have described, that entails all sorts of complexities. You just want something that goes BEEP-BEEP-BEEP KISS YOUR ASS GO

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

2021-01-04 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Most civilized societies immensely value a great many things, and for > exactly zero of them is it acceptable for the government to kick down my > door, wake me up, and scrawl a message on my wall to make sure I hear > about it. Just because digital tools can save the government millions > of

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

2021-01-04 Thread Mike Hammett
ate conversation. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Masataka Ohta" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 9:50:11 AM Subject: Re: NDAA passed: In

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

2021-01-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: Every device that would be capable of doing anything also has an OS. Old computers had hardware (manually manipulated switches and light bulbs to read/write specific memory locations) to install boot strap loader to download OS without any OS. The only involvement ISPs sh

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

2021-01-04 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 2:01 PM, Andy Brezinsky wrote: At this point I would assume that nearly every device is persisting at least one long lived TCP connection.  Whether it's for telemetry or command and control, everything these days seems to have this capability.  As an example, I can hit a button in t

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

2021-01-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Brandon Martin wrote: On 1/4/21 10:01 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: Any device with speaker should produce audible alert and any device with display should produce visible alert. I'm not sure typical North American residential construction could tolerate the sonic pressure generated by such a "go

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

2021-01-04 Thread Jason Canady
*From: *"Masataka Ohta" *To: *nanog@nanog.org *Sent: *Monday, January 4, 2021 9:01:57 AM *Subject: *Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Mike Hammett wrote: > What makes the most sense is the underlying OS does the work and not

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

2021-01-04 Thread Mike Hammett
ay, January 4, 2021 9:01:57 AM Subject: Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Mike Hammett wrote: > What makes the most sense is the underlying OS does the work and not > each individual app. It all depends on not OSes but devices. Any device

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

2021-01-04 Thread Mike Hammett
: Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study On 1/4/21 6:44 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: What makes the most sense is the underlying OS does the work and not each individual app. The underlying OS gets these alerts from some aggregator that collects this inform

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

2021-01-04 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/4/21 10:01 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: Any device with speaker should produce audible alert and any device with display should produce visible alert. I'm not sure typical North American residential construction could tolerate the sonic pressure generated by such a "goal"... Streaming devi

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

2021-01-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Michael Thomas wrote: That probably makes sense generally, but for things like earthquakes which have tight requirements (= < 10 seconds), you probably need specialized apps. From regulatory point of view, it merely means that devices sold in some regulatory region (such as US regulated by FC

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

2021-01-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mike Hammett wrote: What makes the most sense is the underlying OS does the work and not each individual app. It all depends on not OSes but devices. Any device with speaker should produce audible alert and any device with display should produce visible alert. As devices are identified at th

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

2021-01-04 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/4/21 6:44 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: What makes the most sense is the underlying OS does the work and not each individual app. The underlying OS gets these alerts from some aggregator that collects this information from all jurisdictions. Doing it at the app layer seems foolish. That pro

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

2021-01-04 Thread Mike Hammett
Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Matt Hoppes" To: "Sean Donelan" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 4:12:40 PM Subject: Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Ale

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

2021-01-04 Thread Masataka Ohta
Valdis Klētnieks wrote: That's why I think doing it at the streaming service level is one level too high. As IP layer is the highest location dependent layer, any layer above it needs special mechanism to explicitly treat location information, which does not scale especially at international

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

2021-01-04 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
Most civilized societies immensely value a great many things, and for exactly zero of them is it acceptable for the government to kick down my door, wake me up, and scrawl a message on my wall to make sure I hear about it.  Just because digital tools can save the government millions of man-hour

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

2021-01-04 Thread Krassimir Tzvetanov
I am impressed that this thread made it to the drain in less than a day, so here are my few cents on the topic. First, the NDAA does not prescribe port numbers, or any other technology, as no policy document EVER should. It's plain and simple. Mark Foster covered it well, but here is a slightly di

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

2021-01-03 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/2/21 22:40, Sabri Berisha wrote: Aliens always invade New York, so I'm safe up here :) I thought that was Roswell :-). Mark.

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

2021-01-03 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:03 PM Keith Medcalf wrote: > >I think the challenge here is that there's a category of people > >who don't have cell phones, who don't have cable TV, but > >receive content over their internet connection. I happen to > >live with someone like that, so I know it's a non-z

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

2021-01-03 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Keith Medcalf" >>I think the challenge here is that there's a category of people >>who don't have cell phones, who don't have cable TV, but >>receive content over their internet connection. I happen to >>live with someone like that, so I know it's a non-zero

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

2021-01-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:00:22 -0700, "Keith Medcalf" said: > This is the same thing I tell shithead politicians and pollsters that cause > my phone to ring. If you wish to speak with me then you can pay to install > your own communications equipment at your own expense. Um... Keith? Pretty much a

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 5:00 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: I think the challenge here is that there's a category of people who don't have cell phones, who don't have cable TV, but receive content over their internet connection. I happen to live with someone like that, so I know it's a non-zero portion of the pop

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

2021-01-03 Thread Keith Medcalf
>I think the challenge here is that there's a category of people >who don't have cell phones, who don't have cable TV, but >receive content over their internet connection. I happen to >live with someone like that, so I know it's a non-zero portion >of the population. I pay for my Internet connect

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 2:27 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: On Jan 3, 2021, at 13:57, Michael Thomas wrote: I just sent some mail to the myshakes folks at UCB asking if they have an achitecture/network document. In their case for earthquakes it need to be less than ~10 seconds so they are really pushing th

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 2:23 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Thomas" Well, TCP means that the servers have to expect to have 100k's of open connections; I remember that used to be a problem. As for D'oH, sure; let's centralize the attack surface. The only reason I

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

2021-01-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jan 3, 2021, at 13:57, Michael Thomas wrote: > I just sent some mail to the myshakes folks at UCB asking if they have an > achitecture/network document. In their case for earthquakes it need to be > less than ~10 seconds so they are really pushing the limit. If they get back > to me, I'll s

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

2021-01-03 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Thomas" >> Well, TCP means that the servers have to expect to have 100k's of open >> connections; I remember that used to be a problem. >> >> As for D'oH, sure; let's centralize the attack surface. > The only reason I bring up DoH is because now ther

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

2021-01-03 Thread Andy Brezinsky
At this point I would assume that nearly every device is persisting at least one long lived TCP connection.  Whether it's for telemetry or command and control, everything these days seems to have this capability.  As an example, I can hit a button in the Nintendo Switch parent app on my phone a

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 1:50 PM, Mark Delany wrote: On 03Jan21, Brandon Martin allegedly wrote: I was thinking more in the original context of this thread w.r.t. potential distribution of emergency alerts. That could, if semi-centralized, easily result in 100s of million connections to juggle across a sing

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 1:22 PM, Mark Delany wrote: Even with a participating application, quiescing in-memory state to something less than, say, 1KB is probably hard but might be doable with a participating TLS library. If so, a million quiescent connections could conceivably be stashed in a coupla GB of

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

2021-01-03 Thread Mark Delany
On 03Jan21, Brandon Martin allegedly wrote: > I was thinking more in the original context of this thread w.r.t. > potential distribution of emergency alerts. That could, if > semi-centralized, easily result in 100s of million connections to juggle > across a single service just for the USA. Wh

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

2021-01-03 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Brandon Martin" > The nice thing is that such emergency alerts don't require > confidentiality and can relatively easily bear in-band, > application-level authentication (in fact, that seems preferable to only > using session-level authentication). That mean

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

2021-01-03 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/3/21 4:22 PM, Mark Delany wrote: Creating quiescent sockets has certainly been discussed in the context of RSS where you might want to server-notify a large number of long-held client connections very infrequently. While a kernel could quiesce a TCP socket down to maybe 100 bytes or so (e

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

2021-01-03 Thread Mark Delany
On 03Jan21, Brandon Martin allegedly wrote: > On 1/3/21 3:11 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > Well, TCP means that the servers have to expect to have 100k's of open > > connections; I remember that used to be a problem. > > Out of curiosity, has anyone investigated if it's possible to hold open > a

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

2021-01-03 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/3/21 3:11 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Well, TCP means that the servers have to expect to have 100k's of open connections; I remember that used to be a problem. Out of curiosity, has anyone investigated if it's possible to hold open a low-traffic, long-lived TCP session without actually sto

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 12:11 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Thomas" To: nanog@nanog.org On 1/2/21 10:31 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Yup; it's messy, and in many many different ways. Won't be a snapshot rollout. Not a bad idea, though, if implemented correctly; tim

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

2021-01-03 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Thomas" > To: nanog@nanog.org > On 1/2/21 10:31 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >> 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. >

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

2021-01-03 Thread Jim
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:02 PM Rich Kulawiec wrote: [snip] > streaming company need to be able to authenticate the alerts from > all those different agencies. Those agencies also need to secure [...] The agencies would already submit their alerts through IPAWS gateways managed by FEMA; otherwi

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

2021-01-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Rich Kulawiec said: > And then there's another problem, which is that once all those different > agencies have this facility, they're going to (ab)use it as they see fit. A year or two ago, Alabama issued a state-wide "blue alert" when a police officer was shot. So my weather/a

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 10:01 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 03:26:07AM -0500, Valdis Kl??tnieks wrote: Meanwhile, this causes yet another problem - if Hulu has to be able to know what alerts should be piped down to my device, this now means that every single police and public safety agenc

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

2021-01-03 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 03:26:07AM -0500, Valdis Kl??tnieks wrote: > Meanwhile, this causes yet another problem - if Hulu has to be able to > know what alerts should be piped down to my device, this now means that > every single police and public safety agency has to be able to send the > alerts to

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/2/21 10:31 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: 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 aler

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

2021-01-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 09:26:07 +, Mark Foster said:' > Yeah my family got a PS4 for Christmas. But we've had an Xbox One for > the last few years. There are quite a few streaming apps, true. But a > lot fewer of those than worldwide telcos, or jurisdictions, or emergency > services. You missed

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/2/21 10:15 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: Let's just go back to air-raid sirens. I'm old enough to remember when they were tested every day at noon, which also told you it was noon (lunch!) We'd say heaven help us if The Enemy attacked at noon. They still do in San Francisco garbled messa

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

2021-01-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/3/21 12:26 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:59:37 +1300, Mark Foster said: In my mind it's simple.� The streaming companies need to have a channel within their streaming system to get a message to a 'currently active customer' (emergency popup notification that appears

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

2021-01-03 Thread Mark Foster
On 2021-01-03 08:26, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:59:37 +1300, Mark Foster said: In my mind it's simple.� The streaming companies need to have a channel within their streaming system to get a message to a 'currently active customer' (emergency popup notification that appears

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

2021-01-03 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Foster wrote: On 3/01/2021 2:41 am, Masataka Ohta wrote: 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 serv

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

2021-01-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:59:37 +1300, Mark Foster said: > In my mind it's simple.� The streaming companies need to have a channel > within their streaming system to get a message to a 'currently active > customer' (emergency popup notification that appears when their app is > open or their websit

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

2021-01-02 Thread George Herbert
I've already had to spike one widely announced WAN UDP protocol that someone had proposed without thinking through security and DDOS features. Please don't let's try that trick again. We have perfectly good approaches that don't involve insecure untraceable transport layers. This isn't 1985. TCP

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

2021-01-02 Thread Jim
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:01 AM Mark Foster wrote: > And I don't see that opening up a UDP port on every end-user device to > receive some sort of broadcast (unicast?) is going to be great security. ... Yeah: This is probably best done by either requiring the streaming services to know where

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

2021-01-02 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Masataka Ohta" > 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, includ

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

2021-01-02 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Valdis Klētnieks" > To: "Matt Hoppes" > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 17:12:40 -0500, Matt Hoppes said: >> How would that even work? Force a pop up into web traffic? > > That's not going to play nicely at all in a world of https:// > >> What

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

2021-01-02 Thread bzs
Let's just go back to air-raid sirens. I'm old enough to remember when they were tested every day at noon, which also told you it was noon (lunch!) We'd say heaven help us if The Enemy attacked at noon. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://w

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

2021-01-02 Thread Mark Foster
On 3/01/2021 2:41 am, Masataka Ohta wrote: 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 trivi

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

2021-01-02 Thread Max Harmony via NANOG
On 02 Jan 2021, at 22.38, Matthew Petach wrote: > It doesn't look like there's currently any internet-capable way of > consuming the IPAWS feed, at least that a quick search engine > dive turns up. Wondering if any of the folks here know of providers > that have signed up with FEMA to redistri

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

2021-01-02 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 5:45 PM Max Harmony via NANOG wrote: > > On 02 Jan 2021, at 19.18, Matthew Petach wrote: > > I think the challenge here is that there's a category of people > > who don't have cell phones, who don't have cable TV, but > > receive content over their internet connection. I

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

2021-01-02 Thread Max Harmony via NANOG
On 02 Jan 2021, at 19.18, Matthew Petach wrote: > I think the challenge here is that there's a category of people > who don't have cell phones, who don't have cable TV, but > receive content over their internet connection. I happen to > live with someone like that, so I know it's a non-zero

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

2021-01-02 Thread Matthew Petach
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 6:51 AM Sander Steffann wrote: > Hi, > [...] > 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)

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

2021-01-02 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 05:07:22PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > 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

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

2021-01-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/2/21 12:40 PM, Sabri Berisha wrote: - On Jan 1, 2021, at 2:12 PM, Matt Hoppes mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net wrote: Hi, How would that even work? Force a pop up into web traffic? What if the end users is using an app on a phone? Most, if not all, mobile devices connected to c

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

2021-01-02 Thread Sabri Berisha
- On Jan 1, 2021, at 2:12 PM, Matt Hoppes mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net wrote: Hi, > How would that even work? Force a pop up into web traffic? What if the end > users is using an app on a phone? Most, if not all, mobile devices connected to cellular already have that option. On my i

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

2021-01-02 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/2/21 8:41 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: As streaming services are often offered from distant places including foreign locations, generations of emergency alert packets *MUST* be responsibility of *LOCAL* ISPs. I mean, if you know where you are, it's trivial to ask various services that already

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

2021-01-02 Thread Sander Steffann
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 >

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

2021-01-02 Thread Masataka Ohta
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 rece

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

2021-01-02 Thread Radu-Adrian Feurdean
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, at 23:12, Matt Hoppes wrote: > How would that even work? Force a pop up into web traffic? What if > the end users is using an app on a phone? Like any other "commission-based study". Remember, the action is : "after providing public notice and opportunity for comment, the

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