Advocates for the deaf and hard of hearing pushed back against a CEA petition for reconsideration that sought to change some IP-video closed captioning rules that the FCC adopted to comply with the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA). At the same time, media industry groups and a CE manufacturer opposed a petition for reconsideration the same advocates had lodged that would expand the types of video covered by the rules. And media groups also opposed a petition for reconsideration filed by TVGuardian, which makes a “foul language filter” for TV programming. Other parties lodged oppositions to various petitions for reconsideration earlier last week (WID June 8 p10) (WID June 7 p8).
Advocates for the deaf and hard of hearing pushed back against a CEA petition for reconsideration that sought to change some IP-video closed captioning rules that the FCC adopted to comply with the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA). At the same time, media industry groups and a CE manufacturer opposed a petition for reconsideration the same advocates had lodged that would expand the types of video covered by the rules. And media groups also opposed a petition for reconsideration filed by TVGuardian, which makes a “foul language filter” for TV programming. Other parties lodged oppositions to various petitions for reconsideration earlier last week (CD June 8 p17).
DALLAS -- The FCC should do more to encourage secondary markets for spectrum, Commissioner Robert McDowell told the Telecommunications Industry Association conference. In a speech where he discussed a spectrum policy to promote U.S. growth and make the economy more “reliably business friendly,” he revisited critiques of the FCC for taking too long to review deals and discussed ways frequencies can be used more efficiently. Over the past decade, major transactions have taken an average of 321 days to get approved, and the commission’s voluntary 180-day clock to review deals means little when commission staff frequently stop it at will, McDowell said.
The Court of International Trade ordered the International Trade Administration to redetermine or further explain some aspects of its 2008 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890), including, among other issues, the ITA’s use of zeroing (on voluntary remand), aspects of Chinese manufacturer Fairmont’s1 partial adverse facts available (AFA) rate, some surrogate values used by the ITA to determine wages for respondents, including the use of Indian wage data, and some financial statements relied on by the ITA in its calculations.
DALLAS -- The FCC didn’t go far enough when it started an initiative for a voluntary anti-bot code of conduct for ISPs and domain name system best practices, said Jeff Goldthorp, associate Public Safety Bureau chief for cybersecurity and communications reliability. “We were singlemindedly focused more on the tethered environment, less on the tetherless environment,” he said on a panel at the Telecommunications Industry Association conference on Wednesday.
The draft version of the future International Telecommunication Regulations includes “this fuzzy boundary between ’telecom’ and ‘Internet,'” said Syracuse University Professor Milton Mueller, a day after he urged the U.S. government to provide access to the draft. The draft of the document, called TD64, was sent to him in a “mysterious email,” Mueller wrote, and it was posted on the website of the Internet Governance Project (http://xrl.us/bnava8). The ITU secretariat said it did not see a problem with the publication/leak.
The FCC lacks authority for disabilities accessibility rules in areas where a committee of representatives of industry and those with problems seeing couldn’t agree, three associations said. CEA, NAB and NCTA were the only initial commenters by a 11:59 p.m. Tuesday deadline in dockets 12-107 and 12-108 on a Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee report on areas including device and user interface accessibility and getting emergency information. The associations said that just because the VPAAC couldn’t achieve consensus doesn’t mean regulation’s needed or lawful.
DALLAS -- The FCC didn’t go far enough when it started an initiative for a voluntary anti-bot code of conduct for ISPs and domain name system best practices, said Jeff Goldthorp, associate Public Safety Bureau chief for cybersecurity and communications reliability. “We were singlemindedly focused more on the tethered environment, less on the tetherless environment,” he said on a panel at the Telecommunications Industry Association conference on Wednesday.
The draft version of the future International Telecommunication Regulations includes “this fuzzy boundary between ’telecom’ and ‘Internet,'” said Syracuse University Professor Milton Mueller, a day after he urged the U.S. government to provide access to the draft. The draft of the document, called TD64, was sent to him in a “mysterious email,” Mueller wrote, and it was posted on the website of the Internet Governance Project.
The FCC lacks authority for disabilities accessibility rules in areas where a committee of representatives of industry and those with problems seeing couldn’t agree, three associations said. CEA, NAB and NCTA were the only initial commenters by a 11:59 p.m. Tuesday deadline in dockets 12-107 and 12-108 on a Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee report on areas including device and user interface accessibility and getting emergency information. The associations said that just because the VPAAC couldn’t achieve consensus doesn’t mean regulation’s needed or lawful.