

There is a Service Provider "A" who wants to be able to sign secure calls, so that other Service Providers can display to their users information about authenticity of the caller (trusted, fake, etc.).


The basic use case in the SHAKEN framework would be: Today’s Order requires all originating and terminating voice service providers to implement STIR/SHAKEN in the Internet Protocol (IP) portions of their networks by June 30, 2021, a deadline that is consistent with Congress’s direction in the recently-enacted TRACED Act. Widespread deployment of STIR/SHAKEN will reduce the effectiveness of illegal spoofing, allow law enforcement to identify bad actors more easily, and help phone companies identify calls with illegally spoofed caller ID information before those calls reach their subscribers. These rules will further the FCC’s efforts to protect consumers against malicious caller ID “spoofing,” which is often used during robocall scam campaigns to trick consumers into answering their phones. STIR/SHAKEN enables phone companies to verify that the caller ID information transmitted with a call matches the caller’s phone number. On March 31st 2020 the Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules making STIR/SHAKEN mandatory from June 2021:
