On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:19:55PM +0200, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: > There are legit reasons to set the ani to the customer and not the > provider, especially for those that want to use it as a pots line > replacement service.
Certainly, and I've (explicitly) never suggested any differently. > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:09 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:56:06AM -0400, Peter Beckman wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 May 2008, Steve Totaro wrote: > > > > However, there should be a law against bogus ANI. > > > > > > So as a VoIP provider, what exactly is the ANI I should set? A phone > > > number in the LATA in which my server is located? Any phone number I > > > "own" or at least control? > > > > If the subscriber for whom you're transiting the call to the PSTN has a > > dialable DN for that line, then you should use that number. If it's a > > trunk-group type facility, any number which can be called to reach that > > trunk group. If the particular facility is outbound only, any number > > that addresses an inbound facility billed to the same customer, > > preferably at the same physical location. > > ideally it would be the number that the customer chooses that they have > proven is theirs. However this becomes harder when you get resellers of > resellers. You also have to have a database, which is checked for each > and every call to see if that customer is allowed to dial out with that > ani. This increases the switching cost to set up the call, increases > the overall costs in terms of maintaining that database, and is not > infallable (a customer may have the number one day and not the next). As I noted, I'm perfectly happy to let aggregators do it by contract; the hammer that will fall on them is big enough that I don't think they need to validate a second (or third) time. > If it boils down to a fine, you can have a indemnify and hold harmless > clause but for those to really be effective you have to have the person > in a jurisdiction where they can be served and be forced to comply, > which makes international customers difficult, it also means that they > have to have enough to actually pay, if they dont you are still on the > hook for the fine. Yup. Things are a bit too wild and wooly for me in that market space just now anyway; I don't want them pulling the entire PSTN over on top of themselves (and me). It ain't what it was in 1978, but it's still better than most. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
