Chairman Pai Proposes Mandating STIR/SHAKEN To Combat Robocalls

Fri Mar 6 22:54:08 UTC 2020

Good luck supporting it on legacy TDM 
switches.  I know work-around exist, but nobody 
wants to invest any money in modifying legacy gear.

At 05:34 PM 06/03/2020, Sean Donelan wrote:

>https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-mandating-stirshaken-combat-robocalls
>
>Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit 
>Pai today proposed a major step forward to 
>further the FCCâ€™s efforts to protect consumers against
>spoofed robocalls: new rules requiring 
>implementation of caller ID authentication using 
>socalled â€œSTIR/SHAKENâ€ technological 
>standards. STIR/SHAKEN enables phone companies 
>to verify the accuracy of caller ID information 
>that is transmitted with a call. Industry-wide
>implementation would reduce the effectiveness of 
>illegal spoofing, allow law enforcement to 
>identify bad actors more easily, and help phone 
>companies identify calls with illegally spoofed 
>caller ID information before those calls reach their subscribers.
>
>The FCC will vote on these new rules during its Open Meeting on March 31.

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