The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition launched an effort to press the FCC to "make emergency improvements" to a business data service draft order, to ensure anchor institutions have access to affordable broadband offerings. “Providing fast, affordable internet is the best way to improve education and lift community anchor institutions into the future,” said SHLB Executive Director John Windhausen in a release Thursday announcing the #NOBufferBrains campaign, which includes a video. “Schools use Ethernet, Hospitals use Ethernet, and Libraries desperately need Ethernet. The National Broadband Plan set the goal of gigabit speeds for all anchor institutions by 2020, and the FCC must not miss this opportunity to advance that goal.” The group wants the FCC to regulate both legacy TDM and newer Ethernet services with data speeds at or below 50 Mbps "in an equivalent manner to help smaller and rural anchor institutions obtain more affordable broadband connections."
Congress must “take action to create national enablers to accelerate the transition to NG911, lower its cost to [public-safety answering points] PSAPs, and institute critical cybersecurity protections,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in an Oct. 21 letter the agency released Tuesday. Schumer asked about next generation-911 vulnerabilities in September, and Wheeler said in “multiple testimonies before Congress, I have suggested that the FCC is close to the limit of what it can do to facilitate NG911 and called on Congress.” There’s a need for "coordinated action and leadership at both the state and national level to guarantee that our 911 emergency systems remain secure and available to provide services around the clock” and “Congress has the unique ability to make the transition to NG911 a national priority and to provide the means to achieve it,” he told Schumer, who's expected to lead Senate Democrats next Congress. Wheeler acknowledged vulnerabilities that Schumer was worried about and said U.S. PSAPs are “at a crossroads” in the transition to NG-911. An FCC task force on optimal 911 center architecture “will deliver a detailed set of recommendations regarding establishing Emergency Communications Cybersecurity Centers to conduct inspection and filtering of PSAP call traffic” later this year and “will serve as the foundation for further concerted industry top-to-bottom investigation of the how to protect PSAPs from cyber and denial of service attacks,” Wheeler said. Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Bill Nelson, D-Fla., committed in September to introducing NG-911 legislation “in the near future” (see 1609150058). No bill was introduced before the current recess period.
Congress must “take action to create national enablers to accelerate the transition to NG911, lower its cost to [public-safety answering points] PSAPs, and institute critical cybersecurity protections,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in an Oct. 21 letter the agency released Tuesday. Schumer asked about next generation-911 vulnerabilities in September, and Wheeler said in “multiple testimonies before Congress, I have suggested that the FCC is close to the limit of what it can do to facilitate NG911 and called on Congress.” There’s a need for "coordinated action and leadership at both the state and national level to guarantee that our 911 emergency systems remain secure and available to provide services around the clock” and “Congress has the unique ability to make the transition to NG911 a national priority and to provide the means to achieve it,” he told Schumer, who's expected to lead Senate Democrats next Congress. Wheeler acknowledged vulnerabilities that Schumer was worried about and said U.S. PSAPs are “at a crossroads” in the transition to NG-911. An FCC task force on optimal 911 center architecture “will deliver a detailed set of recommendations regarding establishing Emergency Communications Cybersecurity Centers to conduct inspection and filtering of PSAP call traffic” later this year and “will serve as the foundation for further concerted industry top-to-bottom investigation of the how to protect PSAPs from cyber and denial of service attacks,” Wheeler said. Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Bill Nelson, D-Fla., committed in September to introducing NG-911 legislation “in the near future” (see 1609150058). No bill was introduced before the current recess period.
Securing the IoT ecosystem that will grow to 50 billion interconnected devices in four years won't be easy because innovation is outpacing the regulatory and legislative process, and incentives largely don't exist to encourage consumers and others to better secure devices, panelists said during a Hogan Lovells conference. Just last week, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) internet attack against DynDNS knocked out service for several popular websites (see 1610240047).
Securing the IoT ecosystem that will grow to 50 billion interconnected devices in four years won't be easy because innovation is outpacing the regulatory and legislative process, and incentives largely don't exist to encourage consumers and others to better secure devices, panelists said during a Hogan Lovells conference. Just last week, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) internet attack against DynDNS knocked out service for several popular websites (see 1610240047).
Securing the IoT ecosystem that will grow to 50 billion interconnected devices in four years won't be easy because innovation is outpacing the regulatory and legislative process, and incentives largely don't exist to encourage consumers and others to better secure devices, panelists said during a Hogan Lovells conference. Just last week, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) internet attack against DynDNS knocked out service for several popular websites (see 1610240047).
Applicants for Bureau of Industry and Security export licenses should say whether ultimate consignees will take title to items after shipment, to help maximize effects of reduced processing burdens attributed to export control reform, BIS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration Matthew Borman said Nov. 1 at the Update 2016 Conference on Export Controls and Policy. BIS processed more than 35,000 license applications in 2015, and the State Department processed 45,000, combining for a total “significantly lower” than before export control reform started in 2010, Borman said. The numbers reflect the “dramatic” movement of items from the U.S. Munitions List (USML) to the Commerce Control List (CCL), as well as license exceptions available for CCL “500 Series” and “600 Series” items, he said.
The National Foreign Trade Council hired Vanessa Sciarra, previously vice president with the Emergency Committee for American Trade, as vice president for legal affairs and trade and investment policy, the NFTC said in a news release (here). She also previously worked as an assistant general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and as a partner in law firm Cassidy Levy.
The FCC supported one-touch, make-ready pole attachment rules in local jurisdictions, saying they're consistent with federal policies. In a letter Monday to U.S. District Court in Louisville, the commission rejected an AT&T argument that federal rules preclude the one-touch ordinance. The FCC statement could deal a blow to incumbents seeking to keep Google Fiber and other new entrants off the poles, a community broadband advocate said.
The FCC supported one-touch, make-ready pole attachment rules in local jurisdictions, saying they're consistent with federal policies. In a letter Monday to U.S. District Court in Louisville, the commission rejected an AT&T argument that federal rules preclude the one-touch ordinance. The FCC statement could deal a blow to incumbents seeking to keep Google Fiber and other new entrants off the poles, a community broadband advocate said.