The Commission defines third-party authentication as an arrangement in which a provider with a STIR/SHAKEN implementation obligation contracts with another party to perform the technological act of signing calls on the provider's behalf, expressly including hosted SHAKEN and carrier SHAKEN solutions and excluding instances in which a provider authenticates its own traffic.

Checked 2026-09-16

Vendor
Federal Communications Commission
Product
STIR SHAKEN
Subsystem
third-party authentication
Deployment
all-us-voice-service-provider-networks
Region
united states
Release range
compliance from 2025-09-18
Checked
2026-09-16

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WarmTransfer. (2026, September 16). Robocall mitigation and RMD obligations: source note robocall-mitigation-eight-third-party-definition. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/robocall-mitigation-eight-third-party-definition

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-robocall-mitigation-eight-third-party-definition,
  title  = {Robocall mitigation and RMD obligations: source note robocall-mitigation-eight-third-party-definition},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/robocall-mitigation-eight-third-party-definition},
  note   = {Source note robocall-mitigation-eight-third-party-definition, checked 2026-09-16}
}

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