On 10/24/19 4:01 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and John Thune (R-S.D.)
reintroduced the Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement
(READI) Act today (October 24, 2019).
The READI Act would:
[...]
Explore establishing a system to offer emergency alerts to audio and
video online streaming services, such as Netflix and Spotify;
[...]
The READI Act is support by NCTA – The Internet and Television
Association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the
Internet Association, CTIA – The Wireless Association, and the
Wireless Infrastructure Association.
Due to its bi-partisan co-sponsors and industry support, this bill is
likely to pass.
As I've stated before, I think network emergency alerts should be
built into the underlying smart assistant layer (i.e. apple siri,
amazon echo/fire, roku, google/nest home, etc.) instead of each
content provider or internet provider.
Content provider is pretty ill defined -- everything is "content". But
I'm not sure why it should reside in smart assistants either. What if I
don't want or use any of them? They're awfully invasive. And it doesn't
seem that you need them for amber alerts, and the new earthquake alerts
here in california. What would be good imo is to define how alerts are
sourced and distributed and put requirements on what devices need to
implement it, but leave the actual UI a design decision. That's a pretty
well tested route in the past cf, ietf and other standards bodies that
don't touch UI with a ten foot pole.
Mike
