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From: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
I don't think SHAKEN/STIR really addresses the root problems with spoofing phone numbers, anymore than any of the BGP proposals for spoofing IP addresses.
Nevertheless, the FCC wants to be seen as doing something. So Chairman Pai is having a summit to show all the progress.
On Thursday, July 11, 2019, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will convene a summit focused on the industry’s implementation of SHAKEN/STIR, a caller ID authentication framework to combat illegal robocalls and caller ID spoofing. Chairman Pai expects major voice service providers to deploy the SHAKEN/STIR framework this year. The summit will showcase the progress that major providers have made toward reaching that goal and provide an opportunity to identify any challenges to implementation and how best to overcome them.
Well, y'know, it's been 10 years since I originated calls to LD carriers. But when I did, 3 of my carriers (VZN and 2 LDs) trapped outgoing calls that weren't for 10D calling numbers *they had assigned us* (and hence I had to work that out with them to prove that *someone* had)... nd the other 2 didn't give a crap. I could send them anything -- even calls with CNID that wasn't a valid NANP address (4th digit 1, frex). Since nearly all of this is being originated over PRIs to LD carriers, right; maybe if the FCC just threatened the LD carriers who do not do the calling number legitimacy enforcement the regs (I think) already require them to do...? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274