October 2021

Committee Reports

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• OBF: Ordering and Billing Forum
  • Issue: 3659
  • Title: Access Service Ordering Guidelines (ASOG): New Valid Entry ‘C’ for Network Facility Requirement Type (NFRT) field
  • Statement: There is a need to add a new Valid entry C = Complex Build second character of NFRT field. The request from Frontier is there are stated intervals for Minor and Major builds, but wants to add Complex Build indicating there is not a stated interval, however the date is provided on FOC.
  • Resolution: Added NFRT value C to recognize there is a Complex build and the DD will be provided on FOC.
  • Status: Initial Closure

  For more information, visit the OBF home page or contact Drew Greco.

• STEP: Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection Committee
  • Issue: 0202
  • Title: Fault Managed Power Distribution Technologies – Human Contact Fault Analysis
  • Statement: Revisions are needed to this standard for conversion to ATIS-0600040.01 (associated with ATIS-0600040.02) and to address changes addressing industry feedback on initial implementation of these requirements.
  • Resolution:
  • Status: New Issue

  For more information, visit the STEP home page or contact Mignot Asefa.

• WTSC: Wireless Technologies and Systems Committee
  • Issue: 0095
  • Title: Emergency Location Spoofing Mitigation
  • Statement: Public Safety would benefit from industry support for a mechanism, comparable to the SHAKEN authentication and verification mechanisms that have been specified for caller identity information, that would provide an indication of the trustworthiness of the location information associated with a 9-1-1 call. For example, the ability to recognize spoofed location information can provide Public Safety with a critical tool to support the detection and mitigation of swatting attacks. Ideally, a call taker at a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) should be able to assess, in real time, the level of trust that can be placed on the location information provided with a call. Considerations related to potential solutions that would allow for the “signing” and “verification” of location information need to address the fact the location may be conveyed “by value” or “by reference”. In addition, because there are multiple ways in which location may be acquired, location spoofing mitigation mechanisms may involve the association of some kind of classification with the location information conveyed with an emergency call. For example, an Originating Service Provider (OSP) that receives location-by-value from a UE could associate a different classification with that location than it would use for location that was determined by the OSP itself. Coordination with IETF will be needed to support the specification of protocol elements necessary to support the signing and verification of location information. ATIS-0700015 will need to be updated to specify any architectural, procedural, or signaling impacts associated with the signing of location information associated with emergency calls.
  • Resolution:
  • Status: New Issue

  For more information, visit the WTSC home page or contact Anna Karditzas.

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Recently Approved ATIS Standards

PTSC

• Document Number: ATIS-1000080.v004
• Title: Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs (SHAKEN): Governance Model and Certificate Management
• Type: Revision
• View Here

STEP

• Document Number: ATIS-0600030.2021
• Title: Line Powering of Telecommunications Equipment on Outside Plant (OSP) Twisted Copper Pair Loops
• Type: Revision
• View Here

WTSC

• Document Number: ATIS-0700036.v003
• Title: Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) 3.0 Mobile Device Behavior (MDB) Specification
• Type: Revision
• View Here
• Document Number: ATIS-0700040.v002
• Title: North American Microwave Spectrum Bands (United States, Canada, and Mexico)
• Type: Revision
• View Here

Recent Policy Filings

INC

• Date: 10/14/21
• Description: Comments response supporting the Commission’s efforts to combat illegal robocalling, but opposing requiring direct access to number applicants to certify that the VoIP numbers for which they are applying will only be used to provide interconnected VoIP services.
• View filing

STEP

• Date: 10/29/21
• Description: ATIS letter to Fire Department of the City of New York and the New York City Department of Buildings to collaborate with the telecommunications industry to ensure that the amended New York City Fire Code does not negatively impact the reliability and availability of communications networks
• View filing