[128820] in North American Network Operators' Group
H.R. 3101: Twenty-first Century Communications Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Aug 17 09:07:28 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:07:18 -0400
To: "nanog@nanog.org Operators Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This passed the House by 348-23
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=3Dh111-3101
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<http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/100139-lawmakers-begi=
n-push-to-extend-internet-services-to-disabled>
While much of the focus is on closed captioning, there are several other =
pieces of this that SPs might be interested in. Here are two that strike =
me :
SEC. 715. INTERNET PROTOCOL-BASED RELAY SERVICES.
=91Within one year after the date of enactment of the Twenty-First =
Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, each =
interconnected VoIP service provider and each provider of =
non-interconnected VoIP service shall participate in and contribute to =
the Telecommunications Relay Services Fund established in section =
64.604(c)(5)(iii) of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect =
on the date of enactment of such Act, in a manner prescribed by the =
Commission by regulation to provide for obligations of such providers =
that are consistent with and comparable to the obligations of other =
contributors to such Fund.=92.
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SEC. 201. VIDEO PROGRAMMING AND EMERGENCY ACCESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
(e)
(2) VIDEO DESCRIPTION, EMERGENCY INFORMATION, USER INTERFACES, AND VIDEO =
PROGRAMMING GUIDES AND MENUS- Within 18 months after the date of =
enactment of this Act, the Advisory Committee shall develop and submit =
to the Commission a report that includes the following:
(A) An identification of the performance objectives for protocols, =
technical capabilities, and technical procedures needed to permit =
content providers, content distributors, Internet service providers, =
software developers, and device manufacturers to reliably encode, =
transport, receive, and render video descriptions of video programming =
and emergency information delivered using Internet protocol or digital =
broadcast television.
Regards
Marshall
