The Internet Security Alliance asked the White House to institute a “beta testing phase” for the Cybersecurity Framework, which the National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing in consultation with industry stakeholders. NIST is collecting feedback on a preliminary version of the framework it released late last month. The Department of Homeland Security is set to push for full-scale implementation of the framework once NIST releases the final version in February. The government’s difficulty in implementing online registration of healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act is evidence of the problems with “adhering to artificially determined deadlines and not doing adequate testing,” said ISA President Larry Clinton in a news release Friday. “We are simply proposing the federal government do what any private sector entity would do before it goes to a full launch of a new product or service -- you run a beta test with selected target audiences and generate data to refine the product before you go to full deployment.” Clinton said NIST has been unable to fully adhere to the guidelines in President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity executive order, namely that the framework address cost effectiveness. Data gleaned from beta testing “can then be used to demonstrate what elements of the framework are cost effective for various types of organizations and what sort of incentives will be needed to encourage voluntary adoption of needed elements which are not determined to be cost effective,” Clinton said. Beta testing would also allow DHS to “work with the organizations on implementation, track the issues and costs and deploy the incentives provided to manage the costs,” he said. “If we can reliably report this data of cost effectiveness to the community we will have a much better chance to encourage voluntary participation of framework techniques on a sustainable basis."
The Supreme Court should grant broadcasters’ cert petition against Aereo to keep the streaming TV service and court decisions upholding it from threatening “the existence of the American broadcast industry as the nation has come to know it,” said the Media Institute in an amicus brief filed Tuesday (http://bit.ly/17S91CA). Aereo’s model for streaming broadcaster content is “a pretext of legal cover” allowing Aereo to traffic in copyrighted content, said the brief. “Aereo’s bizarre engineering, employing thousands of antennas to do the work of one, reveals to all what is really going on.” The brief criticized the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling denying a preliminary injunction against Aereo and asked the Supreme Court to reject it. “This Court should grant the petition to vindicate the clear intent of Congress to protect the copyright interests vested in broadcasters from unfair exploitation,” said the institute.
The Internet Security Alliance asked the White House to institute a “beta testing phase” for the Cybersecurity Framework, which the National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing in consultation with industry stakeholders. NIST is collecting feedback on a preliminary version of the framework it released late last month. The Department of Homeland Security is set to push for full-scale implementation of the framework once NIST releases the final version in February. The government’s difficulty in implementing online registration of healthcare plans under the Affordable Care Act is evidence of the problems with “adhering to artificially determined deadlines and not doing adequate testing,” said ISA President Larry Clinton in a news release Friday. “We are simply proposing the federal government do what any private sector entity would do before it goes to a full launch of a new product or service -- you run a beta test with selected target audiences and generate data to refine the product before you go to full deployment.” Clinton said NIST has been unable to fully adhere to the guidelines in President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity executive order, namely that the framework address cost effectiveness. Data gleaned from beta testing “can then be used to demonstrate what elements of the framework are cost effective for various types of organizations and what sort of incentives will be needed to encourage voluntary adoption of needed elements which are not determined to be cost effective,” Clinton said. Beta testing would also allow DHS to “work with the organizations on implementation, track the issues and costs and deploy the incentives provided to manage the costs,” he said. “If we can reliably report this data of cost effectiveness to the community we will have a much better chance to encourage voluntary participation of framework techniques on a sustainable basis."
The Supreme Court should grant broadcasters’ cert petition against Aereo to keep the streaming TV service and court decisions upholding it from threatening “the existence of the American broadcast industry as the nation has come to know it,” said the Media Institute in an amicus brief filed Tuesday (http://bit.ly/17S91CA). Aereo’s model for streaming broadcaster content is “a pretext of legal cover” allowing Aereo to traffic in copyrighted content, said the brief. “Aereo’s bizarre engineering, employing thousands of antennas to do the work of one, reveals to all what is really going on,” said the Media Institute. The brief criticized the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling denying a preliminary injunction against Aereo and asked the Supreme Court to reject it. “This Court should grant the petition to vindicate the clear intent of Congress to protect the copyright interests vested in broadcasters from unfair exploitation,” said the brief.
The Supreme Court should grant broadcasters’ cert petition against Aereo to keep the streaming TV service and court decisions upholding it from threatening “the existence of the American broadcast industry as the nation has come to know it,” said the Media Institute in an amicus brief filed Tuesday (http://bit.ly/17S91CA). Aereo’s model for streaming broadcaster content is “a pretext of legal cover” allowing Aereo to traffic in copyrighted content, said the brief. “Aereo’s bizarre engineering, employing thousands of antennas to do the work of one, reveals to all what is really going on.” The brief criticized the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling denying a preliminary injunction against Aereo and asked the Supreme Court to reject it. “This Court should grant the petition to vindicate the clear intent of Congress to protect the copyright interests vested in broadcasters from unfair exploitation,” said the institute.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 12, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 12 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for Nov. 8 (Note that some may also be given separate headlines.)
The Commerce Department published notices in the Nov. 8 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on solid urea from Russia (A-821-801). The agency continued to find a zero AD rate for MCC EuroChem, the only respondent. Commerce will direct CBP to liquidate period of review entries of subject merchandise from MCC EuroChem without regard to AD duties, and will not collect a cash deposit on future entries of subject merchandise exported by MCC EuroChem until further notice. The new rate is effective Nov. 12, and will be implemented by CBP soon.