FCC adopts Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on non-IP SHAKEN

May 2, 2025

The FCC voted to adopt its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on non-IP call authentication. This article reviews the rules, rulemaking process, and timeline. Let’s have a look.

Proposed rules

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) describes rules the Commission intends to make final.

The new rules would require providers that rely on non-IP networks to either migrate to IP networks or implement a non-IP call authentication mechanism by a date certain.

Adopting this NPRM, however, does not finalize the rules. First, the Commission wants to receive comments and reply comments before deciding on the final rules.

The NPRM presents a thorough, detailed discussion of the Commission staff’s thought process that went into making the proposed rules. The document is 49 pages long, and it includes 66 paragraphs of discussion and three and a half pages of rules edits.

The Commission requested lots of comments.

Timeline

Comments will be due 30 days after the NPRM just adopted is published in the Federal Register. Reply comments will be due 60 days after this publication date.

After the reply comment deadline, the Commission will consider the comments and reply comments received and then issue its final rules.

The proposed rules would give providers two years from when the final rules are published in the Federal Register to comply.

It might take some time for the final rules to be published in the Federal Register. The final rules might require review by the Office of Management and Budget as stipulated by the Paperwork Reduction Act.

We’ll be following this closely.

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