On 7/9/21 1:36 PM, K. Scott Helms wrote:
Nothing will change immediately. Having said that, I do expect that
we will see much more effective enforcement. The investigations will
come from the ITG (Industry Traceback Group) with enforcement
coming from FCC or FTC depending on the actual offense. The problem
has been that it's been far too easy for robocalling companies to hop
from one telecom provider to another. Now there are requirements
around "know your customer" that telecom operators have to follow and
the ITG will have a much better chance of figuring out who the bad
actor is than they have in the past.
The thing is that that shouldn't have been held up by rolling out STIR.
With email, there was nothing akin to the FCC so it was really the only
name-and-shame stick we had. This could have been done years ago.
Longer term I worry that this will lead to more attacks on PBXs,
eSBCs, and VOIP handsets to be able to call either from that endpoint
itself or be able to use the SIP credentials. The market for robocalls
will certainly not disappear.
A meta question that really needs to be asked these days is why we even
need telco telephony anymore. A lot of problems go away if you are not
in thrall to 100 year old technology and its accreted kruft.
Mike