Trade Groups Ask FCC to Delay Comment Deadlines on Smart Device Labeling NPRM
Industry associations asked the FCC to delay by 30 days the Sept. 25 deadline for filing comments on an NPRM on a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for smart devices (see 2308100032). The groups said they will need at least 45…
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days to develop reply comments. The current deadline for replies is Oct. 10. The filing was signed by CTIA, the Consumer Technology Association, NCTA, the Security Industry Association, the Telecommunications Industry Association and USTelecom. They asked for deadlines of Oct. 24 for initial comments, Dec. 8 for replies. “The NPRM in this proceeding asks more than 120 questions on fundamental aspects of the proposed labeling scheme,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 23-239: “This proposal, by definition, raises new and novel issues of a type that the Commission has not examined before. Implementing the program will thus require the Commission to consider many complex and consequential questions.” They called the proceeding “incredibly complex.”