NANC Delivers Report to FCC on Call-Authentication Governance, Shaken/Stir Deployment

broadest participation of industry," wrote NANC Chairman Travis Kavulla in a cover letter Thursday. The NANC approved a draft April 27 recommending industry set up a governance authority and select a policy administrator over the next year to oversee the framework for providers to use "Shaken/Stir" protocols and procedures for authenticating calls, but it didn't propose a hard deadline for provider adoption due to concerns about network capabilities (see 1804270027). Shaken/Stir stands for Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (Shaken) and Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (Stir). The report provides "a set of milestones for adoption and deployment of a SHAKEN/STIR call authentication system, including metrics by which the industry's progress can be measured," wrote Kavulla. "It also identifies certain actions the Commission may wish to take to ensure that these milestones and timelines are met." Columbia University Professor Henning Schulzrinne, a member of NANC's call-authentication working group, wrote a brief minority report saying "all relevant and affected stakeholders" should be represented on the governance authority. He proposed "to have two non-carrier board members: one board member nominated by NARUC and one by the consumer group members of the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee or drawn from one of the consumer entities that have been most active in this area (e.g., Consumers Union)."