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​​​​​​​​​​ITU ​Roundtable: ​Implementing ITU standards for combating fraudulent c​ommunications

New Delhi, India, 09 October 2026

Contact: tsbevents@itu.int


​10:00 - 10:20
​Opening
Tejpal Singh, ITU-T SG11 Chair, ​Ministry of Communications, India

Welcome remarks

​​​​​Seizo Onoe, D​irector of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

Keynote address
H.E. Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, India
10:20 - 10:30​ ​Setting the scene: fraudulent communications and the signalling trust gap

Objectives:
 Why calling line identification can be falsified in interconnected networks; what the resulting harm looks like for consumers, enterprises and financial institutions; why measures applied at the network edge alone have not resolved it. Framed using the threat classification of [ITU-T Q.3066] and the vulnerabilities documented in [ITU-T QSTR-SS7-DFS]

Tejpal Singh, ITU-T SG11 Chair, ​Ministry of Communications, India
10:30 - 11:00​ ​The ITU-T secure signalling framework and ​standards for certificate-based CLI authentication

Objectives: Presentation of the standards baseline: the architecture and trust anchor model of [ITU-T Q.3057]; the signalling procedures and protected message structure of [ITU-T Q.3062]; the CLI authentication procedures of [ITU-T Q.3063]; the protocol extensions of [ITU-T Q.763] Amd. 7 and companions; the certificate issuance requirements and cross-border trust anchor certificate list of determined draft [ITU-T Q.3070]; and the governance framework under development as draft [ITU-T E.1122] in ITU-T SG2. What an implementation consists of, and where the principal deployment decisions arise.

Assaf Klinger, Vaulto​ Technologies, Israel
Chris Wendt, Vice President of Systems Engineering, Somos, Inc.
11:00 - 11:10​​Q/A

Objectives: Short factual questions on the material presented. Substantive discussion is held for the roundtable.​​

Assaf Klinger​, Vaulto​ Technologies, Israel
​11:10 - 11:50
​Panel: what it takes to implement​

Objectives: A moderated panel with operator, supplier and certification-authority perspectives, addressing: integration points in existing networks; effort and lead time; certificate lifecycle operations; behaviour of transit networks; and what would need to be in place before an operator could proceed.

Assaf Klinger​, Vaulto​ Technolog​ies, Israel
​Rekha Jain​, Head Cloud Infrastructure and Core Development, Center For Development of Telematics (C-DOT), India​
​​11:50 - 12:30
​Roundtable: administration and regulator perspectives

Objectives: Administration and regulator representatives describe the situation in their jurisdictions and the conditions under which certificate-based CLI authentication could be deployed.

Tejpal Singh, ITU-T SG11 Chair, ​Ministry of Communications, India
Deepak Sharma​, Advisor, TRAI​
Sanjeev Kumar Sharma​, Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, India​
​12:30 - 12:50
​​Proof of Concept (PoC)

Objectives: Presentation of the PoC, including its scope, objectives, phases, participation model and indicative timeline; what participation involves; and how to express interest.

Assaf Klinger​​, Vaulto​ Technologies, Israel
12:50 - 13:00​ ​Closing summary and next steps

Objectives:
 Consolidated summary of the roundtable; open points recorded for consideration in the respective ITU-T Study Groups; reporting arrangements; closing remarks.

Tejpal Singh​, ITU-T SG11 Chair, ​Ministry of Communications, India