---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <o9hfps$308u$1@gal.iecc.com> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 16:53:16 +0000 (UTC) From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: With Jews nationwide watching, the FBI works to crack the tough case of a telephone culprit >It would seem to be very reasonable, in order to protect the >integrity of the communications network, to require some sort >of "hard" source identification at VOIP gateways. Um, let's say you're not the first person to make that observation. The government and industry have been working for a couple of years on adding digital signatures to the SIP control messages that VoIp uses. It's coming along, but implementing any sort of signalling change takes a long time. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <o9hfs1$308u$2@gal.iecc.com> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 16:54:25 +0000 (UTC) From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: With Jews nationwide watching, the FBI works to crack the tough case of a telephone culprit Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote: >Per John Levine: >> I have an account with a VoIP provider that happens to be in Europe, >>and I can send pretty much any calling number I want. > >Dunno about "... pretty much any calling number..." but my USA VOIP >provider allows me to spoof my outgoing calls' CallerID with my home >landline phone number. That's your USA provider following the USA rules. But that's their (quite sensible) policy, not anything in the protocol. R's, John ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 06 Mar 2017