FCC Proposes Closing the Non-IP Network Loophole

[Mike Mercury]

Exploited by Robocallers to Scam Consumers

ref:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-411101A1.pdf

Calls Passing Through Older Networks Should Maintain Their Digital Fingerprints
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WASHINGTON, April 28, 2025—The Federal Communications Commission today sought to close a gap that has allowed far too many robocalls to bypass caller ID authentication tools that protect consumers.

The STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication framework is a critical element – long championed by the Commission – for tracking, blocking, and warning customers about malicious robocalls.
And yet, this digital fingerprint on phone calls is washed off if any part of the call path passes through non-IP network technology. Today’s action sets the stage for ensuring that technological reality does not mean these calls lose their digital fingerprints when passing through older, non-IP-based networks.

For the last four years, the FCC has delayed the TRACED Act’s deadline for carriers to implement an authentication framework for non-IP calls. Today’s action looks to end these
delays, seeking comment on implementation of caller ID authentication solutions, and opens the door for further improvements down the road.
Specifically, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted today seeks to establish criteria for evaluating whether frameworks meet the TRACED Act standards, and it posits that two existing frameworks meet those standards while taking further comment on a third.

The Commission also proposes requiring that providers regularly certify to their implementation. If adopted as final rules, providers would have two years to comply.
WC Docket No. 17-97

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[dvarapala]

IDGAFF if carriers implement an authentication framework for non-IP calls. All I need is the option to silently reject any phone call without authenticated source identification. That would eliminate all of the spoofed Caller*ID bullshit that we are currently dealing with. Once I have that I can block callers by default and whitelist as needed.

:thumbs:

[Yadkin]

IDGAFF if carriers implement an authentication framework for non-IP calls. All I need is the option to silently reject any phone call without authenticated source identification. That would eliminate all of the spoofed Caller*ID bullshit that we are currently dealing with. Once I have that I can block callers by default and whitelist as needed.

:thumbs:

You tell 'em, Elon!

[slewfoot]

I don't know how all that really works, but over the past few years, I may get one call a week which is not enough for me to gaf anymore.

[Frankie the Fink]

I've gotten some insidious ones from heavily accented yokels stating I am getting to lose my Social Security benefits or some other nonsense and I wonder how many older 'not so sharp anymore' folks they dupe out of some money. Slimy as hell.