[VoiceOps] Truth in CallerID act of 2010

[Alex Balashov]

Whoops, was meaning to cross-post this to another list that brought it up.

On 04/15/2010 05:39 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:

> David Hiers on the Voiceops list pretty much nailed it:
>
> https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/voiceops/2010-April/001410.html
>
> On 04/15/2010 02:00 AM, David Hiers wrote:
>
>> Near as I can tell... As long as the "intent to defraud, etc"
>> exclusion is in there, pretty much nothing changes. You pretty much
>> have to be trying to break another law (fraud, harm, etc) to get
>> busted on this one. This just gives them one more arrow to shoot at
>> the fraudster, and it'll even stick in an unsuccessful one at that!
>>
>> You can still mislead as much as you like if you are doing out of
>> humor or laziness.
>>
>> Carriers are pretty much indemnified from almost everything; we can't
>> have those billionaires actually responsible for anything, now can we?
>>
>> Still gotta get counsel's read on this one, of course.
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:24 PM, anorexicpoodle
>> <anorexicpoodle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> While it hasn't been signed into law yet seems like its worth opening
>>> up a
>>> discussion on the topic since its something we all deal with.
>>>
>>> http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1258rh.txt.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> The first questions that come to mind are:
>>>
>>> Where does the liability lie in a termination/wholesale situation
>>> where the
>>> termination carrier doesn't own the numbers terminating calls through
>>> their
>>> network?
>>>
>>> How does this impact services like SkypeOut or similar that mask all
>>> calls
>>> with a common number?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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