Wireless Roundup (September 2022)

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FCC Proposes to Update Intercarrier Compensation Regime: In this Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) “seeks comment on proposed amendments to prevent companies from attempting to evade its existing access stimulation rules, harming customers, and imposing unwarranted costs on America's telecommunications networks.” Specifically, the Commission proposes “to eliminate perceived ambiguity in our rules that the record shows companies are seeking to leverage to force IXCs and their long-distance customers to continue to bear the costs of high-volume calling services by incorporating [IP enabled Providers] into the call path.” Comments are due September 6, and reply comments are due October 3.

FCC Seeks Comment on Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls: In this FNPRM, the Commission proposes and seeks comment on a number of actions aimed at protecting consumers from illegal calls. The document “proposes and seeks comment on a number of steps to protect American consumers from all illegal calls, whether they originate domestically or abroad.” Specifically, this document proposes “to require domestic intermediate providers that are not gateway providers in the call path to apply STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication to calls.” It also seeks comment on “a number of robocall mitigation requirements, enhancements to enforcement, clarifications on certain aspects of STIR/SHAKEN, and limitations on the use of U.S. North American Numbering Plan (NANP) numbers for foreign-originated calls and indirect number access.” The comment deadline has passed, and reply comments are due September 16.

NIST Seeks Comment on AI Risk Management Framework: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its (1) AI Risk Management Framework: Second Draft and (2) AI RMF Playbook. The AI RMF Second Draft “builds on the initial March 2022 version and the December 2021 concept paper” and “reflects and incorporates the constructive feedback received.” The AI RMF Playbook “provides actions Framework users could take to implement the AI RMF by incorporating trustworthiness considerations in the design, development, use, and evaluation of AI systems.” Comments on both documents are due September 29.

NCCoE Requests Comment on Mitigating AI Bias: The National Cybersecurity Center for Excellence (NCCoE) released a new Draft Project Description, Mitigating AI/ML Bias in Context: Establishing Practices for Testing, Evaluation, Verification, and Validation of AI Systems. The purpose of this project is to develop domain-specific testing, evaluation, verification, and validation (TEVV) guidance for detecting bias; recommendations for bias mitigation; and recommended practices for humans involved in automated decision-making processes in a specific context (consumer and small business credit underwriting). As part of the project, NCCoE will release an AI/ML Practice Guide. Comments are due September 16.

NIST Seeks Comment on Information and Communications Technology Enterprise Risk Management: NIST released two new documents focused on information and communications technology (ICT) enterprise risk management (ERM). Draft SP 800-221A, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Risk Outcomes: Integrating ICT Risk Management Programs with the Enterprise Risk Portfolio, provides a set of desired outcomes and applicable references common across all types of ICT risk, and provides a common language for understanding, managing, and expressing ICT risk to internal and external stakeholders. Draft SP 800-221, Enterprise Impacts of Information and Communications Technology Risk: Governing and Managing ICT Risk Programs Within an Enterprise Risk Portfolio, seeks to promote a greater understanding of the relationship between ICT risk management and ERM and the benefits of integrating those approaches. The comment deadline for both publications is September 6.

NIST Requests Comment on Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems: NIST announced a Pre-Draft Call for Comments on its SP 800-171 series on controlled unclassified information (CUI). NIST seeks feedback on the use, potential updates, and opportunities for improvement to SP 800-171 Rev. 2, and its supporting publications – SP 800-171A, SP 800-172, and SP 800-172A. This publication “provides agencies with recommended security requirements for protecting the confidentiality of CUI when the information is resident in nonfederal systems and organizations; when the nonfederal organization is not collecting or maintaining information on behalf of a federal agency or using or operating a system on behalf of an agency; and where there are no specific safeguarding requirements for protecting the confidentiality of CUI prescribed by the authorizing law, regulation, or governmentwide policy for the CUI category listed in the CUI Registry.” Comments are due September 16.

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