[asterisk-biz] ANI

[Alex Balashov]

Steve Totaro wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Alex Balashov
> <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>> Bill Michaelson wrote:
>>
>>> Miles Scruggs wrote:
>>>> `
>>>> Welcome to IP baby, you really can't lock it down using the
>>>> traditional methods.  As much as you would like to think that the
>>>> entity converting the IP to PSTN should/would/could/does correctly
>>>> specify the absolute correct ANI/CID it is quite the opposite on a
>>>> large scale.  Unless someone dreams up a new way to enforce or
>>>> efficiently verify CID/ANI and the big boys actually implement it this
>>>> isn't likely to change.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Digital signatures?  a la RSA?
>> Clever, agile, and very ingenious and all-around open-source affirmative
>> of you.  But you might have missed the "big boys actually implement it"
>> part.  :-)
>>
>> --
>> Alex Balashov
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> 
> Well a government mandate would make the "Big Boys actually implement it."
> 
> Let me spoof NSA with DHS ANI and visa versa using WiFi and a hacked
> asterisk box.

That is probably the ticket, indeed.

But my guess is that the most intensive pressure is going to come from 
the lobbying efforts of ILECs, as the same catch up to the fact that an 
increasing number of VoIP calls are being terminated into their networks 
from "who knows" and presented as originating from anywhere, throwing a 
wrench into their finely billing and OSS processes, honed over numerous 
decades.  VoIP termination threatens to render partially meaningless 
their immensely complicated tariffs and service type distinctions... 
intra-LATA local, intra-LATA rated ("LD"), real inter-LATA LD (IXC), 
many stipulations of interconnection agreements, associated regulations...

-- 
Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
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