Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

[bzs () theworld com]

On October 3, 2022 at 16:05 mike () mtcc com (Michael Thomas) wrote:
> The problem has always been solvable at the ingress provider. The 
> problem was that there was zero to negative incentive to do that. You 
> don't need an elaborate PKI to tell the ingress provider which prefixes 
> customers are allow to assert. It's pretty analogous to when submission 
> authentication was pretty nonexistent with email... there was no 
> incentive to not be an open relay sewer. Unlike email spam, SIP 
> signaling is pretty easy to determine whether it's spam. All it needed 
> was somebody to force regulation which unlike email there was always 
> jurisdiction with the FCC.

Analogies to email are always fraught.

How often do LEGITIMATE telco customers make hundreds if not thousands
of calls per hour w/o some explicit arrangement with their telco?

As they say, a telephone company is a vast, detailed billing system
with an added voice feature.

Quite unlike email where it's mostly fire and forget plus or minus
hitting a spam filter precisely because there is no billing, no
incentive. And no voice "snowshoeing".

I doubt robocalls are ever made with anything like spam
roboarmies.

With email it's like every single computer on the net with an IP
address has, in effect, a (potentially) fully functional "originating
switch" (again, some exceptions like port 25 blocking.) People have
run spambots from others' printers etc.

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