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 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.
but "including" is...
It's not feasible. The alert should be given by not services but devices running various services including streaming ones.
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. Someone will find away to exploit it.
It should be the responsibility of local ISPs to generate such packets and not to relay such packets generated by others.
I think you're overthinking this.
In my mind it's simple. The streaming companies need to have a channel within their streaming system
You have successfully made the simple problem complex enough to be unsolvable.
Local Authorities can feed emergency broadcast information to the streaming companies tagged with a geolocation
Local authorities? You can't expect such locality for companies offering streaming or similar services over the Internet. Moreover, there is no reason to give precise definition of "streaming services" and not to give alert to users of similar services. Masataka Ohta