NTCA Urges FCC to Act on Non-IP Caller ID Authentication

NTCA urged the FCC to act on implementing technical standards for non-IP caller authentication in a meeting with Wireline Bureau staff (see 2301240052). A delay in addressing IP interconnection would "perversely perpetuate the existence of non-IP facilities that act as a considerable gap in the Stir/Shaken ecosystem," the group said, per an ex parte filing Tuesday in docket 17-97. The FCC should "recognize that inaction here is the true impediment to the IP transition and widespread caller-ID authentication," it said, saying a non-IP mandate would be unnecessary if the commission "took meaningful action to facilitate a transition away from non-IP interconnection arrangements."