OTI Lauds FCC's Focus on 'Opaque' Undersea Cable World, Outages
New America's Open Technology Institute welcomed an FCC undersea cable NPRM as "focusing attention" on an "opaque part of the Internet's architecture that needs greater oversight." Its adoption Thursday launched a proceeding aimed at requiring undersea cable licensees to report…
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on major outages (see 1509170047). "Most online traffic travels through submarine cables at some point, and yet we know very little about when this part of the network fails," the OTI said in a statement Thursday. "A single cable outage can disrupt entire regions, as we saw in the Northern Marianas [sic] Islands earlier this year when an outage knocked out the territory's access to the Internet and forced a shutdown of its banking system. We need more data about these outages to strengthen the Internet's resilience and to protect people from future disruptions."