Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-19 Thread John Curran
On 11 Jul 2019, at 3:23 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > I used to think that email spam was a law enforcement problem too, but it's > become very clear that law enforcement has little to no interest in solving > geeks' problems. Law enforcement deals with legal entities (persons, organizations)

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-18 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/18/19 3:15 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Thomas" On 7/15/19 12:07 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Yes, of course we sent out calls with "spoofed" CNID. But, even though only 2 or 3 or our 5 carriers* held *our* feet to the fire, we held the clients'

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Thomas" > On 7/15/19 12:07 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >> Yes, of course we sent out calls with "spoofed" CNID. >> >> But, even though only 2 or 3 or our 5 carriers* held *our* feet to the fire, >> we held the clients' feet to the fire, requiring them

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-16 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 6:28 PM Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: > > But right you are, it's ultimately the carrier who needs to care about this > > problem at or nothing gets better. > > either the carrier starts dealing with it or legislation will come down to >

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Michael Thomas wrote: But right you are, it's ultimately the carrier who needs to care about this problem at or nothing gets better. either the carrier starts dealing with it or legislation will come down to force the issue. -Dan

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/15/19 12:07 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Christopher Morrow" On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:00 PM Paul Timmins wrote: Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, by creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Christopher Morrow" > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:00 PM Paul Timmins wrote: >> >> Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, by >> creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of >> caller ID data on behalf of their

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Sean Donelan
Chairman Pai issues statement at the conclusion of the SHAKEN/STIR robocall summit. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-358430A1.pdf WASHINGTON, July 11, 2019—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai issued the following statement on today’s SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit at

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Timmins
Not really. For reasons already cited by Keith Medcalf in an offshoot of the thread, and because the real world implication of that liability transfer would be telecom carriers undertaking risk management and looking at their products and pricing and deciding whether certain customers should

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
-- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. On Thursday, 11 July, 2019 13:03, Peter Beckman wrote: >On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote: >> On Thursday, 11 July, 2019 12:38, Ross Tajvar >wrote: >> >>> What

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/11/19 12:05 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:04 PM Peter Beckman wrote: "with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value" Kind of a huge hole that, unless you record all calls which opens other liability, is hard to prove. I'm not

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:04 PM Peter Beckman wrote: > > "with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of > value" > > Kind of a huge hole that, unless you record all calls which opens other > liability, is hard to prove. > I'm not sure that the cited code works for this

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/11/19 12:03 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Michael Thomas wrote: So I have a meta-question about all of this. Why in 2019 are we still using telephone numbers as the primary identifier? It's a pretty sip-py world these days, even on mobile phones with wifi

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Peter Beckman
"with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value" Kind of a huge hole that, unless you record all calls which opens other liability, is hard to prove. Beckman On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Paul Timmins wrote: Pretty simply - Sending caller ID to commit fraud. It's

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > So I have a meta-question about all of this. Why in 2019 are we still > using telephone numbers as the primary identifier? It's a pretty sip-py > world these days, even on mobile phones with wifi calling, I assume. It > seems like this

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Peter Beckman
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote: On Thursday, 11 July, 2019 12:38, Ross Tajvar wrote: What if you use different carriers for termination and origination? How does your termination carrier validate that your origination carrier has allocated certain numbers to you and that you're

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:31 PM Keith Medcalf wrote: > > > On Thursday, 11 July, 2019 11:18, Christopher Morrow > wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:00 PM Paul Timmins wrote: > > >> Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, > >> by creating some liability on the

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. >-Original Message- >From: Ross Tajvar [mailto:r...@tajvar.io] >Sent: Thursday, 11 July, 2019 12:54 >To: Keith Medcalf >Cc: Christopher Morrow; North American Network Operators' Group >Subject: Re: SHAKEN/ST

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Timmins
Pretty simply - Sending caller ID to commit fraud. It's literally already illegal. The legislature has already defined it for us, even. 47 USC 227 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227 (B) to initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Peter Beckman
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Ross Tajvar wrote: What if you use different carriers for termination and origination? How does your termination carrier validate that your origination carrier has allocated certain numbers to you and that you're therefore allowed to make outbound calls with a caller ID set

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Ross Tajvar
Well yeah, people need to take responsibility, but IMO we as engineers need to discuss the specific circumstances and methodologies that enable that to happen. It's easy to say "they should fix it", and you're not wrong that they should, but how? Do you have a validation framework in mind which

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 11 July, 2019 12:38, Ross Tajvar wrote: >What if you use different carriers for termination and origination? >How does your termination carrier validate that your origination >carrier has allocated certain numbers to you and that you're >therefore allowed to make outbound calls

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Ross Tajvar
What if you use different carriers for termination and origination? How does your termination carrier validate that your origination carrier has allocated certain numbers to you and that you're therefore allowed to make outbound calls with a caller ID set to those numbers? That doesn't sound to me

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Michael Thomas
So I have a meta-question about all of this. Why in 2019 are we still using telephone numbers as the primary identifier? It's a pretty sip-py world these days, even on mobile phones with wifi calling, I assume. It seems like this problem would be more tractable if callerid was a last resort

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 11 July, 2019 11:18, Christopher Morrow wrote: >On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:00 PM Paul Timmins wrote: >> Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, >> by creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of >> caller ID data on behalf of

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:00 PM Paul Timmins wrote: > > Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, by > creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of > caller ID data on behalf of their customers. 'illicit use of caller id' - how is caller-id being

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 11:59 -0400, Paul Timmins wrote: > Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, by > creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of > caller ID data on behalf of their customers. This 1000%. Once legal liability is in place, the

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Timmins
Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, by creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of caller ID data on behalf of their customers. But the carriers don't want that, so now we have to create tons of technical half solutions to solve a problem

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-10 Thread Keith Medcalf
way to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. >-Original Message- >From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Christopher >Morrow >Sent: Wednesday, 10 July, 2019 22:10 >To: Sean Donelan >Cc: nanog list >Subject: Re: S

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-10 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 11:56 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, Sean Donelan wrote: > > The agenda looks like lots of happy, happy talk from industry > > representatives. > > In advance of the SHAKEN/STIR robocall summit, AT has issued a press > release announcing plans to

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-10 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, Sean Donelan wrote: The agenda looks like lots of happy, happy talk from industry representatives. In advance of the SHAKEN/STIR robocall summit, AT has issued a press release announcing plans to automatically block robocalls for its customers.

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-10 Thread Peter Beckman
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote: The solution is to disallow spoofing. If the "pretty overlay information" does not equal the "billing information" then do not permit the call to be made. Easy Peasy. This assumes that all calls from a phone number originate from the carrier of

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-10 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 06:54:51PM -0600, Keith Medcalf wrote: > This is because DKIM was a solution to a problem that did not exist. This is correct. We have always known the IP address of the connecting MTA, therefore we have always known the network it resides in, therefore we have always

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-09 Thread Sean Donelan
The agenda for the SHAKEN/STIR robocall summit was published today. Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019 Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Location: Commission Meeting Room at FCC Headquarters It will also be live-streamed on the FCC web site.

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-09 Thread Izzy Goldstein - TeleGo
back on track to stir/shaken would a service provider also need to implement this? or its for the big carriers to do ? On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:17 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 7/8/19 7:11 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > when do we get back to stir/shaken? > > that would be nice. i have a

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/8/19 7:11 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: when do we get back to stir/shaken? that would be nice. i have a lot of questions about stir/shaken. attacking a problem statement rfc seems rather bizarre and unhinged to me. it outlines a lot of the objections i had to p-asserted-identity i

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/8/19 6:46 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: On Monday, 8 July, 2019 19:28, Michael Thomas wrote: On 7/8/19 6:24 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: You are the only person who has mentioned reverse DNS lookups. I'm only trying to guess what enlightens your misinformed world. You claimed that the "root

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Christopher Morrow
when do we get back to stir/shaken? On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 9:47 PM Keith Medcalf wrote: > > > On Monday, 8 July, 2019 19:28, Michael Thomas wrote: > > >On 7/8/19 6:24 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > >> You are the only person who has mentioned reverse DNS lookups. > > >I'm only trying to guess

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Monday, 8 July, 2019 19:28, Michael Thomas wrote: >On 7/8/19 6:24 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: >> You are the only person who has mentioned reverse DNS lookups. >I'm only trying to guess what enlightens your misinformed world. You claimed that the "root problem" was not knowing who the

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Keith Medcalf
t: Monday, 8 July, 2019 19:24 >To: Valdis Klētnieks >Cc: Keith Medcalf; nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC > > >On 7/8/19 6:11 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: >> On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:58:17 -0700, Michael Thomas said: >&g

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/8/19 6:24 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: You are the only person who has mentioned reverse DNS lookups. I'm only trying to guess what enlightens your misinformed world. Mike

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Keith Medcalf
z.com] On Behalf Of Michael >Thomas >Sent: Monday, 8 July, 2019 19:12 >To: Keith Medcalf; nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC > >Jon Callas, Eric Allman, the IETF security geek contingent and even >me >disagree with you. rfc 4871 disagr

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/8/19 6:11 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:58:17 -0700, Michael Thomas said: On 7/8/19 5:54 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: This is because DKIM was a solution to a problem that did not exist. ::eyeroll:: pray tell, how do you "always" know the identity of the MTA sending

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Thomas
Jon Callas, Eric Allman, the IETF security geek contingent and even me disagree with you. rfc 4871 disagrees with you. STD 76 disagrees with you. Trillions of signed messages disagree with you. Steve Bellovin probably disagrees with you too since you seem to be under the illusion that a

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:58:17 -0700, Michael Thomas said: > On 7/8/19 5:54 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > This is because DKIM was a solution to a problem that did not exist. > > > > > ::eyeroll:: pray tell, how do you "always" know the identity of the MTA > sending you a message? It's more subtle

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Keith Medcalf
anticipated traffic volume. >-Original Message- >From: Michael Thomas [mailto:m...@fresheez.com] On Behalf Of Michael >Thomas >Sent: Monday, 8 July, 2019 18:58 >To: Keith Medcalf; nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC >

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/8/19 5:54 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: On Monday, 8 July, 2019 18:08, Michael Thomas wrote: when we did DKIM back in the day, almost nobody was requiring SMTP auth which meant the providers could say "blame me" via the DKIM signature, >but couldn't really take much action since they didn't

RE: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Monday, 8 July, 2019 18:08, Michael Thomas wrote: >when we did DKIM back in the day, almost nobody was requiring SMTP >auth which meant the providers could say "blame me" via the DKIM >signature, >but couldn't really take much action since they didn't >know who has doing it. This is

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Michael Thomas
when we did DKIM back in the day, almost nobody was requiring SMTP auth which meant the providers could say "blame me" via the DKIM signature, but couldn't really take much action since they didn't know who has doing it. we sort of took a leap of faith that that would happen.  nowadays, almost

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Peter Beckman
Summary: SHAKEN/STIR does nothing but sign a call by a carrier that can be verified by another carrier that they signed it. It does nothing to stem Robocalls. Discussion: All SHAKEN/STIR does is have the originating carrier of a call to cryptographically attest, to some degree, that the call

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Sean Donelan" > I don't think SHAKEN/STIR really addresses the root problems with > spoofing phone numbers, anymore than any of the BGP proposals for spoofing > IP addresses. > > Nevertheless, the FCC wants to be seen as doing something. So Chairman > Pai