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Chairman Pai Proposes Mandating STIR/SHAKEN To Combat Robocalls
- Subject: Chairman Pai Proposes Mandating STIR/SHAKEN To Combat Robocalls
- From: mike at mtcc.com (Michael Thomas)
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 10:10:50 -0800
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On 3/7/20 9:53 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 4:10 AM Bryan Holloway <bryan at shout.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/7/20 8:03 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:05 PM Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, if my telco can bill the callers for those premium calls, they
>>>> surely know who they are, or at least know where they are sending the
>>>> bill and getting payment from.
>>> You are mistaken, billing is very hard.
>>> Telcos show this regularly.
>>>
>> On the contrary: billing is easy. Getting it right is hard.
>
>
> I like that Mr Thomas's answer: "Why can't we just cryptpgraphically
> sign the caller's ANI and use that as a method to ID real callers we
> care about?"
> since that was my suggestion to the stir folk in their very first
> meeting... "what about ebony phones!" said the lawyer from
> telco-ville.
Well to be clear, i think it's high time to just ignore the old pstn
identity stuff altogether and just use the SIP From.
Mike