NANC Gets WG Updates as Next Meeting Rescheduled to July 14
The FCC North American Numbering Council got status updates at an online meeting Tuesday from several working groups preparing reports for July. Officials said the next meeting will be moved up a day to July 14. Brent Struthers, director of…
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the Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority, said 58 phone providers applied for STI-GA certificates to authenticate caller IDs as part of secure telephone identity revisited (Stir) and secure handling of asserted information using tokens (Shaken) rules. Twenty-three were approved, 12 are in the final testing stage, and most others are gathering additional documentation. Three STI-GA applicants were rejected and can try again once they meet requirements, Struthers responded to our question. The interoperable video calling WG plans a funding and governance model for a 10-digit numbering database to allow easier interoperability among video relay services for the deaf and hard of hearing and other video conferencing services (see 1906210017). IVC WG co-chair David Bahar, director-Telecommunications Access of Maryland, cited security benefits to developing a new database rather than reconfiguring an existing one for this use. The WG plans a report to NANC by June 28, which will be used to inform a NANC report to the FCC Wireline Bureau a month later.