Re: FCC issues new rules about foreign made routers

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 3:14 AM Tom Beecher via NANOG
<[email protected]> 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?
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