{
  "schema": "gah.source-manifest.v1",
  "slug": "ng911-email-planned-fcc-meetings-no-proven-access-chain",
  "title": "The NG911 Email: Planned FCC Meetings, No Proven Access Chain",
  "published": "2026-09-30",
  "scope": "Source-locked reconstruction of the Nov. 23, 2015 Reporty/NG911 email thread, distinguishing public information sharing and prospective outreach from completed FCC access or later-customer causality.",
  "evidence_package": "/Volumes/homes/admin/GAH_US_RUN2_NG911_CARBYNE_MASTER.md",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "NG911-PRIMARY",
      "class": "PRIMARY_EMAIL",
      "record": "EFTA00672765",
      "url": "/pdf-lite?id=EFTA00672765",
      "supports": "Epstein forwards Wheeler article URL; Barak reports Barcelona activity, prospective Wheeler and Schulzrinne contacts, advisory-board intent and investor interest.",
      "limit": "Statements about prior meetings are Barak's account; prospective language does not prove completion."
    },
    {
      "id": "NG911-DUPLICATE",
      "class": "PRIMARY_EMAIL_DUPLICATE",
      "record": "EFTA02372377",
      "url": "/pdf-lite?id=EFTA02372377",
      "supports": "Duplicate production copy of same Nov. 23 exchange.",
      "limit": "Noisier OCR; used as duplicate corroboration, not a separate event."
    },
    {
      "id": "WHEELER-FCC",
      "class": "PRIMARY_GOVERNMENT_CONTEXT",
      "record": "FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler remarks, Mar. 27, 2015",
      "url": "https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-332731A1.pdf",
      "supports": "Tom Wheeler's status as FCC chairman in 2015.",
      "limit": "Role context only; does not establish any Reporty meeting."
    },
    {
      "id": "SCHULZRINNE-COLUMBIA",
      "class": "AUTHORITATIVE_ROLE_HISTORY",
      "record": "Columbia Engineering faculty profile",
      "url": "https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/faculty-staff/directory/henning-g-schulzrinne",
      "supports": "Schulzrinne role history: FCC Technology Advisor Sep. 2014-Aug. 2016; prior CTO Jan. 2012-Aug. 2014.",
      "limit": "Public role context only."
    },
    {
      "id": "SCHULZRINNE-2016",
      "class": "AUTHORITATIVE_APPOINTMENT_NOTICE",
      "record": "Columbia/FCC Senior Advisor appointment notice",
      "url": "https://www.ee.columbia.edu/prof-henning-schulzrinne-appointed-fccs-senior-advisor-technology",
      "supports": "Scott Jordan remained FCC Chief Technologist until late 2016; Schulzrinne returned as Senior Advisor in 2016.",
      "limit": "Later notice used to clarify Nov. 2015 title."
    },
    {
      "id": "CARBYNE-2018",
      "class": "COMPANY_PRESS_RELEASE",
      "record": "Carbyne c-Lite U.S. early adopters, Aug. 2, 2018",
      "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/carbyne-makes-history-announces-early-adopters-of-next-gen-911-plugin-fayette-county-ga-and-ocean-county-nj-822828443.html",
      "supports": "Company announcement naming Fayette County GA and Ocean County NJ as early c-Lite adopters and describing the product as an NG911 plugin.",
      "limit": "Company-issued announcement; does not connect those deployments to the 2015 FCC contacts."
    },
    {
      "id": "RUN2",
      "class": "GAH_RECONSTRUCTION",
      "record": "GAH_US_RUN2_NG911_CARBYNE_MASTER.md",
      "supports": "Bounded corpus search for follow-up/meeting completion and later-customer causal bridge.",
      "limit": "Archive-created synthesis; negative findings are bounded to searched/recovered records."
    }
  ],
  "open_questions": [
    "Whether a Wheeler meeting was scheduled or completed after Nov. 23, 2015.",
    "Whether the planned Nov. 24 Schulzrinne meeting occurred.",
    "Whether Schulzrinne ever accepted an advisory role with Reporty/Carbyne.",
    "Who, if anyone, introduced Reporty to Wheeler or Schulzrinne.",
    "Whether any later U.S. customer referral can be source-linked to the 2015 contacts."
  ],
  "not_established": [
    "That Epstein introduced Reporty or Barak to Wheeler or Schulzrinne.",
    "That the Wheeler or Schulzrinne meetings occurred.",
    "Improper government influence, favoritism, endorsement or lobbying success.",
    "A causal path from the Nov. 2015 email to the 2018 Fayette County or Ocean County deployments."
  ]
}