FCC Suggests Robocall, Caller ID Spoofing Timetable, Issues Workshop Agenda
Taking aim at curbing unwanted robocalls and caller ID spoofing, the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau suggested a two-year timetable for implementation (mostly by industry) of highly technical authentication and call-filtering actions. That news came with CGB's release of…
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the agenda for a related workshop scheduled for Wednesday. The first planned steps would be this winter, with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) completing a “Secure Telephone Identity Revisited SIP (session initiation protocol) header document" and industry organizations and advisory panels recommending how to store "per-number cryptographic credentials,” the bureau said in a public notice Thursday. Several actions would be targeted for next year, including carriers offering "egregious caller" filters in the spring and initial user-controlled call filtering in the fall. The timetable’s stretch run anticipates terminating carriers validating “SIP calls based on carrier or per-number certificates or credentials” in winter 2016-17 and all VoIP-originated calls being “signed” by summer 2017. The workshop will examine call-blocking and call-filtering solutions to robocalls and caller ID spoofing from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Commission Meeting Room. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is to make opening remarks, followed by panels on call-blocking services, third-party solutions, carrier/provider capabilities, and the role of “gateway providers” in stopping unwanted robocalls. Panelists and moderators will include officials from the FCC, FTC and the Indiana attorney general’s office; representatives of telecom providers (AT&T, Bandwidth.com, Level 3, USTelecom, Verizon and Vonage), other industry parties (e.g., the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, Call Control, IETF and Oracle); Consumers Union; and professors from Georgia Tech and Columbia University.