TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Caution: Unidentified Callers Ahead

Re: Caution: Unidentified Callers Ahead

Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@panix.com)
Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:18:34 +0000 (UTC)

In article <telecom25.263.9@telecom-digest.org>, Rick Merrill
<rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:

> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

>> In article <telecom25.261.8@telecom-digest.org>,
>> Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

>>> I suspect from the way current VoIP calls are structured that it would be
>>> (a) very easy to spoof the number,
>>> (b) impossible to enforce upon overseas numbers and
>>> (c) too easy to make the number unavailable in the first place. Heck,
>>> even the doctor's office number is "unavailble".

>> This is all false. Why do we have this same discussion over and over
>> again every few months?

> Well, you don't say where you think you got your information.

I got it from 10 years of design and analysis experience with the
underlying protocols; that it is impossible to "spoof" calling party
ID in properly configured SS7 networks whose operators do not configure
trunks to _customers_ as if they were trunks to _network equipment_ is
simply a matter of fact.

As all the interworking standards make clear, any interworking to a
protocol which does not differentiate between customer-provided and
network-provided calling party identification must either use the
supplied number as a customer provided number only, or replace it with
the BTN for the trunk.

Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com

"We cannot usually in social life pursue a single value or a single moral
aim, untroubled by the need to compromise with others." - H.L.A. Hart

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