[VoiceOps] Identity Header Test Tool

[Mary Lou Carey]

It's a pain in the butt to change the OCN name on NXXs every time there 
is a merger. So most of the time the carriers just keep the name 
associated with the original company and just update the contact 
information and add a target OCN that ties them all together. I don't 
think the LERG lists the target OCN so really the only way someone who 
doesn't have direct access to BIRRDS can tell is by looking up the AOCN 
number in the LERG. All the big guys have been operating this way for 
years so it's pretty much a big mess because of all the mergers.

I only know about Sinch because I have a dedicated sales rep I work with 
for the majority of my consulting clients.

MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111

On 2022-07-05 07:09 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote:
> I was aware of Inteliquent's history as Neutral Tandem & then getting
> merged with Onvoy, who itself was also owned by Zayo at one point,
> etc.  But had no idea they had been gobbled up by Sinch, or even who
> Sinch was...clearly I'm way behind on my news, lol.  I did briefly
> glance at Sinch's page before posting, but it just struck me as a
> Twilio clone, and I simply assumed they were using IQ numbers.
> 
> I don't have a subscription to LERG, and it's not clear to me how
> often publicly-available resources (e.g., telcodata.us) are updated.
> But in most places, the IQ OCNs still seem to be listed as "ONVOY,
> LLC", and from looking at the IQ web site which is still a separate
> thing, it appears Sinch is looking to preserve the IQ branding for
> that set of products.  So absent some change in marketing strategy or
> yet another set of acquisitions, I'm guessing that the OCN name is
> unlikely to change in the foreseeable future...
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Lou Carey [mailto:marylou at backuptelecom.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 4:27 PM
> To: Nathan Anderson <nathana at fsr.com>
> Cc: 'David Frankel' <dfrankel at zipdx.com>; voiceops at voiceops.org
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Identity Header Test Tool
> 
> Inteliquent was just got bought out by Sinch so they are one and the
> same. Inteliquent also bought out several companies like Onvoy several
> years back so it has multiple company names riding its network. It's
> my understanding that Sinch (fka Inteliquent) also sells DID services
> through several different affiliate companies. So you can't always go
> by the name associated with the OCN. A better way to tell which NXXs
> are part of each carrier's network is to pay attention to the AOCN
> number associated with each of the NXXs in the LERG.
> 
> MARY LOU CAREY
> BackUP Telecom Consulting
> Office: 615-791-9969
> Cell: 615-796-1111
> 
> On 2022-07-05 05:52 PM, Nathan Anderson wrote:
>> This totally rocks; thank you for putting this together.
>> 
>> In case anyone is interested, here is what I happen to see when
>> calling any of these numbers through VoIP Innovations' T.38 deck; I
>> will try other LCR rate decks of theirs, as well as other term
>> providers, in the near future:
>> 
>> Like others here have observed happening to them, calling the
>> Bandwidth.com number results in the call being shown as attested, but
>> our original signed attestation has gone missing and been replaced
>> with a "B"-level attestation by Bandwidth themselves.  So perhaps VI
>> does not send any term traffic to Bandwidth, or they just aren't
>> included in the T.38 LCR (very likely, since VI's portal indicates
>> that Bandwidth does not support T.38 on origination, so it's equally
>> likely they don't for term, either, especially since it's much tricker
>> to support for term if you aren't doing the T.38 gatewaying for all
>> TDM- or POTS-destined traffic yourself), and either some intermediate
>> provider is stripping our Identity header out or it's going
>> IP-to-TDM-to-IP with no STI-CPS/OOB-SHAKEN.
>> 
>> The Sinch number seems to be hosted by Inteliquent, and our own signed
>> "A"-level attestation arrives at the destination unmolested.  Makes
>> sense since VI does a ton of business with IQ.
>> 
>> None of our calls to any of the toll-free numbers are attested at all.
>>  Somewhat surprising in the case of Lumen/L3, even more surprising
>> with Sinch/IQ.
>> 
>> -- Nathan
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of
>> David Frankel
>> Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2022 8:05 AM
>> To: voiceops at voiceops.org
>> Subject: [VoiceOps] Identity Header Test Tool
>> 
>> Last week I was forwarded a note from this list regarding tools to
>> test and debug SHAKEN Identity headers. That prompted us to stitch
>> together some modules we already had in an attempt to help.
>> 
>> What we have is at http://identity.legalcallsonly.org. You can call
>> one of the test numbers listed on that page, and if we receive your
>> header, we'll read you a six-digit code. Disconnect and then plug the
>> code into the box on the web form, and we'll show you details of that
>> Identity header.
>> 
>> Perhaps most importantly, you'll be able to see if the header we
>> received is the one you sent. In addition, we parse the header and try
>> to tell you if it is correctly formatted and valid.
>> 
>> Currently we have a couple of geographic DIDs and three toll-free
>> numbers (each using different underlying providers). So far we aren't
>> having a lot of success getting the Identity headers on the TFNs;
>> we're working to improve that.
>> 
>> Suggestions welcome. We hope the tool provokes more discussion about
>> best practices regarding making the Authentication Framework as
>> functional and useful as possible.
>> 
>> Happy 4th of July!
>> 
>> David Frankel
>> ZipDX LLC
>> St. George, UT USA
>> 
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