Public Knowledge, Amazon and Hauppauge Lobby FCC for CVCC DSTAC Recommendations

The virtual headend and competitive user interface recommendations in a Downloadable Security Technology Advisory Committee report could be used to allow “competitive navigation devices to operate on MVPD systems on a uniform basis,” officials from Amazon, Hauppauge and Public Knowledge said on a call with FCC staff Friday, according to an ex parte filing posted Wednesday in docket 15-64. All three entities are part of the Consumer Video Choice Coalition, which backed the virtual headend and competitive user interface recommendations during the DSTAC process. They spoke with FCC staff about ways to implement their DSTAC proposals, they said. The approaches described “would provide MVPDs with flexibility in implementation (e.g., through a cloud interface, or locally) while providing the necessary predicates for a competitive market, such as differentiated user interfaces,” they said.