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Regulatory Watch — Week ending October 2, 2026

USTelecom filed its answer to the critics of agreement-less IP interconnection on September 30, with declarations from AT&T’s Hany Fahmy and Martin Dolly and Verizon’s Lance Lockhart, while INCOMPAS and Inteliquent took the …

Sector Watch — Week ending October 2, 2026

The IETF’s WIMSE working group adopted the AI agent authentication draft on September 15 as draft-ietf-wimse-aims-00, with authors from Defakto Security, AWS, Zscaler, Ping Identity, OpenAI and Okta. It defines no new protocol. It pro…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending September 25, 2026

The Commission votes Wednesday on the TCPA consent-revocation rewrite. The banks and a messaging aggregator asked for the same one-word fix to the circulated draft, and the utilities and the aggregator split on its central change. Keelin Fe…

Sector Watch — Week ending September 25, 2026

iProov, GLEIF, and FIDO Alliance have each proposed a way to verify that a human approved a specific AI agent action in the past five months: iProov’s HAPS, published to GitHub September 18; GLEIF’s proposal to extend the verifi…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending September 18, 2026

AT&T filed two pages on Tuesday on the question sitting at the top of the objections to agreement-less IP interconnection: what happens to 911. Its answer is that the question belongs to a different proceeding. Two economists filed the …

Sector Watch — Week ending September 18, 2026

The OpenID Foundation and FIDO Alliance published post-quantum migration assessments a day apart this week, and both landed on the same conclusion from different standards: the signature algorithm is the easy part. OpenID’s September …

Regulatory Watch — Week ending September 11, 2026

Reply comments on the KYUP FNPRM closed Tuesday, and the record that came in is not split the way these records usually split. The trade associations and the consumer groups disagree about almost everything, and they agree that the Secure T…

Sector Watch — Week ending September 11, 2026

The OpenID Foundation's members approve OpenID Connect Key Binding as a first Implementer's Draft, binding ID Tokens to a client-held key against replay. Plus STIR's recharter clears the objection that held it since August, the IETF advances its email-authentication rewrite on two fronts, and KPMG backs deepfake detection over content provenance.

Regulatory Watch — Week ending September 4, 2026

The Enforcement Bureau pulled fourteen companies’ certifications from the Robocall Mitigation Database this week, and the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau proposed publishing a public scorecard rating voice providers on how we…

Sector Watch — Week ending September 4, 2026

The OpenID Foundation opens a members' vote on an identifier that changes every session, closing a correlation channel the pairwise identifier leaves open. Plus WebAuthn Level 3 reaches full W3C Recommendation, OpenWallet Foundation folds into LF Decentralized Trust, and Sri Lanka builds its national ID on MOSIP.

Regulatory Watch — Week ending August 28, 2026

Inteliquent counted more than 1,600 TDM tandems and ruled out both rival interconnection models on a two-year clock. Three panelists from one state-AG session filed the same ask at the FCC.

Sector Watch — Week ending August 28, 2026

The STIR recharter drew two blocking positions and came off the telechat with no new date, and the privacy question arrived before the work did. Plus DAWN chartering agent discovery with stable identifiers out of scope.

Regulatory Watch — Week ending August 21, 2026

A field engineer petitioned the FCC for a Protected IP Communications category covering fire-alarm and elevator circuits, the same week six more comments landed in WC 25-209. Plus 24 TCPA petitions slated for dismissal.

Sector Watch — Week ending August 21, 2026

The OpenID Foundation told Australia to run accreditation on conformance tests that already exist — six specifications named, zero new test infrastructure requested. Plus the STIR recharter held on two blocking positions.

Regulatory Watch — Week ending August 14, 2026

Comments on the KYUP FNPRM closed Monday, and two dozen of them hit WC 17-97 and CG 17-59 over 48 hours. The FNPRM (FCC 26-32, released May 21) proposed three things: a prescriptive know-your-upstream-provider checklist binding every voice …

Sector Watch — Week ending August 14, 2026

RFC 10006 was published this week and turns a SIP service provider’s STIR posture into a field an enterprise can fetch. The document defines a capability set an enterprise telephony network retrieves from its provider over HTTPS, and …

Regulatory Watch — Week ending August 7, 2026

Comments closed Tuesday in the FCC’s high-cost proceeding. The Fifth Circuit heard argument Wednesday on the constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund. The Commission opened a rulemaking Thursday on how USAC is run. The first co…

Sector Watch — Week ending August 7, 2026

The most useful thing this week is that two of the most widely selected specifications in digital identity finally got a test attached to them. The OpenID Foundation completed the conformance test suites for OpenID4VP and OpenID4VCI under t…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 31, 2026

The KYC reply record closed Monday, and everyone who matters showed up on the deadline. What came in wasn’t a chorus — it was a three-cornered fight. The big carriers and their trade groups told the Commission to keep Know-Your-Custom…

Sector Watch — Week ending July 31, 2026

The most useful thing this week is the OpenID Foundation moving its CAEP Interoperability Profile into final-specification review — a profile whose entire job is to pin down what two implementations of the Shared Signals Framework must agre…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 24, 2026

The robocall-mitigation trilogy got its third leg this week. On Wednesday the Commission released a Further Notice aimed squarely at the Robocall Mitigation Database, and it landed on the same day the reply-comment window closed on the Know…

Sector Watch — Week ending July 24, 2026

The most useful thing this week is a small change in what an identity provider hands over. The OpenID Foundation moved its ephemeral subject identifier profile into final review — a way for a provider to confirm that somebody is authenticat…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 17, 2026

The Commission spent this week on the two transitions that actually reshape the voice network — the move off legacy TDM interconnection, and the tightening of who gets to be a trusted participant in what replaces it. The Wireline Competitio…

Sector Watch — Week ending July 17, 2026

Agent identity moved in three venues in nine days, and none of them tried to invent a new credential. The ITU stood up a Focus Group under SG17, the OpenID Foundation opened an interop event built entirely on existing OAuth drafts, and Entr…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 10, 2026

The reply round on the Commission’s numbering-and-robocalls NPRM closed Tuesday, and the record came back with a striking amount of agreement — not on what to do, but on what not to do. Nearly every serious filer told the Commission t…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending July 3, 2026

Two threads ran through the short holiday week, and they point in opposite directions. On June 29 the industry filed its reply comments against the Commission’s call-center onshoring NPRM and told the FCC, more or less in unison, that…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending June 26, 2026

The comment deadline on the Enhancing Know-Your-Customer Requirements FNPRM landed Thursday, and the entire identity-and-robocall ecosystem filed at once — banks, carriers, identity vendors, competitive providers, domestic-violence coalitio…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending June 19, 2026

The week’s most useful filing came from a vendor that took no position on the question everyone else is fighting about. While the Enhancing Know-Your-Customer docket filled with consumers arguing about whether originating providers sh…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending June 12, 2026

A week ago the numbering NPRM was a footnote — three early comments waiting on a deadline. On Monday the deadline arrived and the proceeding became the whole front page. More than thirty comments landed in the WC 26-49 cluster (cross-listed…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending June 5, 2026

The June 2 comment deadline on the onshoring NPRM did what deadlines do: it emptied the industry’s drawers all at once. Thirty-four comments landed in the CG 26-52 cluster, and the trade associations arrived in close formation — CTIA,…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending May 29, 2026

Memorial Day shortened the week, but Tuesday more than made up for it. The Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau started the KYUP comment clock with DA‑26‑523 at exactly the same hour Public Safety pushed an updated Covered List out the …

Regulatory Watch — Week ending May 22, 2026

Two big items dropped on the same day. On Wednesday, May 20, the Commission adopted — and released Thursday — the Know-Your-Upstream-Provider Further NPRM (FCC-26-32), the STIR/SHAKEN overhaul that the ex parte traffic had been telegraphing…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending May 15, 2026

A quiet week, but a loaded one — most of the docket activity was positioning ahead of the May 20 open meeting, where the Call Authentication Further NPRM (the know-your-upstream-provider item, FCC-CIRC2605-01) is teed up for a vote. The mos…

Regulatory Watch — Week ending May 8, 2026

A week of two storylines, not unrelated. On the robocall side, the Commission’s Know-Your-Upstream-Provider FNPRM (FCC-CIRC2605-01) is on the May open meeting agenda, and the post–April 24 sunshine NPRM cycle started producing the sub…