Re FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Shockey <richard () shockey us>
> Date: March 3, 2017 at 4:54:09 PM EST
> To: <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers
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> This is only the first phase of a long process.  I believe this is not the last FCC NPRM we will see on the subject.
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> The actual NOI/NPRM is here.
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> https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-343731A1.pdf
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> ATIS and the SIPForum have been working on the next step which would be signing the SIP signaling messages for every 
> call in the US network and attesting to those coming in through the international call gateways.  Commission staff 
> has been aware of this work at every step.
>  
> The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and SIP Forum have published the Joint ATIS/SIP Forum 
> Standard – Signature-Based Handling Of Asserted Information Using Tokens (SHAKEN).  This document is available at no 
> cost from the:
>  
> ATIS white paper repository at https://access.atis.org/apps/group_public/download.php/32237/ATIS-1000074.pdf
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> SIP Forum at
> http://www.sipforum.org/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,833/Itemid,261/
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> From: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Reply-To: <dave () farber net>
> Date: Friday, March 3, 2017 at 3:40 PM
> To: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: [IP] FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers
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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: March 3, 2017 at 1:19:35 PM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers
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> FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers
>
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/robocalls-begone-fcc-seeks-to-block-calls-from-spoofed-numbers/
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>      The proposed rules would let providers "block spoofed
>    robocalls when the spoofed Caller ID can't possibly be valid."
>    Providers would be able to block numbers that aren't valid
>    under the North American Numbering Plan and block valid
>    numbers that haven't been allocated to any phone company.
>    They'd also be able to block valid numbers that have been
>    allocated to a phone company but haven't been assigned to a
>    subscriber.
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> Unfortunately, since this would only apply to illegitimate numbers,
> this is likely to be of only extremely limited value.  Robocallers
> have long since learned that spoofed numbers that don't look legit are
> likely to be ignored. So they routinely "borrow" legit numbers of
> legit subscribers to spoof, causing even more hassles for everyone.
> This rule is likely to exacerbate this problem.
>
> --Lauren--
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