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Chris Wendt is Vice President of Systems Engineering at Somos, Inc., and a principal author of the STIR/SHAKEN caller-authentication standards.

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Chris Wendt is Vice President of Systems Engineering at Somos, Inc., where he leads technology strategy for trusted communications. A principal author of the STIR/SHAKEN standards at the IETF, he is editor of draft ITU-T Recommendation E.1122 on cross-border trust for secure signalling certificates, and is advancing VESPER, a STIR profile that extends verifiable caller ID to entities authorized by providers, with transparency, and privacy protected when the caller chooses. He serves on the Board of Directors of the SIP Forum and co-chairs the ATIS / SIP Forum IP-NNI Joint Task Force, the US STI-GA Technical Committee and the IETF vCon Working Group.

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Chris Wendt is Vice President of Systems Engineering at Somos, Inc., where he leads technology strategy for trusted communications. He was a principal author of the STIR/SHAKEN standards at the IETF and co-authored key specifications through the ATIS / SIP Forum IP-NNI Joint Task Force, helping define the protocols that authenticate caller identity in modern IP-based voice networks. He is currently advancing VESPER, a STIR profile that uses delegate certificates and authoritative tokens to extend verifiable caller ID to entities authorized by providers, with transparency, and privacy protected when the caller chooses.

Chris serves on the Board of Directors of the SIP Forum and co-chairs the ATIS / SIP Forum IP-NNI Joint Task Force, the US STI-GA Technical Committee, the IETF vCon Working Group and the CFCA Trust and Transparency Working Group (TTWG). He contributes to the IETF STIR Working Group and is editor of draft ITU-T Recommendation E.1122 in Study Group 2, on how countries designate and share the trust anchors for secure signalling certificates across borders.

Earlier in his career, Chris spent nearly two decades at Comcast — one of the largest voice service providers in the United States — leading innovation in IMS, WebRTC, and real-time communications. His work has been recognized with the ATIS Achievement Award (2016), the ATIS President’s Award (2017), and induction into the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA) Hall of Fame (2026).

The fuller documentary record — standards roles, authored RFCs, regulatory venues, talks, and press — is on the public record.