Re: FCC issues new rules about foreign made routers

[virendra rode via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> On Mar 24, 2026, at 07:30, Christopher Morrow via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 3:14 AM Tom Beecher via NANOG
> <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > The National Security Determination (
> > https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/NSD-Routers0326.pdf ) on this
> > gives the game away quite clearly.
> >
> > To facilitate this transition period, entities that produce routers in a
> > > foreign country are encouraged to apply for Conditional Approvals (Annex A)
> > > which, if approved, will allow such producers to continue to receive FCC
> > > authorization for their products while they work to address the U.S.
> > > government’s national security concerns described above.
> >
> >
> > You can reliably predict that companies will be granted their conditional
> > approvals quickly after making a 'donation' to a presidential library fund
> > or other associated entity, because that's basically the primary function
> > of the US government at this point.
>
> Library fund note aside, didn't India attempt a similar
> lockdown/process for equipment
> used to operate networks in India ~7 yr back? Whatever happened to
> that I wonder?
———-
I believe this was aimed at Chinese vendors specially during border tensions in 2020. If anything India has gone lot 
more stringent, citing cyber security threat to the nation. Government wants access to the underlying code (vetting) of 
equipment including smartphones. Vendors are having a fit, calling it intellectual property risk. cisco & apple are not 
happy because DOT wants to get inside their skivvies ;-)

Some do but nobody fully grasp the magnitude of tectonic shift taking place in India. 

/vrode
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