Re FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers

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

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> From: Tilghman Lesher <tilghman () meg abyt es>
> Date: March 3, 2017 at 4:17:31 PM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers
>
> Dr. Farber-
>
> I don't read this proposal the way Lauren does.  To me, it appears to be a rulemaking designed to loosen the 
> restrictions on blocking performed by the ILECs.  Presumably, there are rules prohibiting ILECs from blocking calls 
> from CLECs, meant to ensure competition in the marketplace.  (Otherwise, when CLECs were getting started in the 90s, 
> an ILEC might block all calls coming from a CLEC, driving their customers back to the ILEC and causing the CLEC to 
> fail.)  The rules read as if they're intended to give ILECs the freedom to implement blocking at the carrier level, 
> even if they would block some calls from a CLEC.
>
> > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > 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/
> > >
> > >      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.
> > >
> > > - - -
> > >
> > > 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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