VRS Providers Ask FCC for Clarity on Using Their Domain Names in iTRS Database
The FCC should clarify that video relay service providers can populate the "iTRS database with provider domain names, rather than user IP addresses," the five VRS providers said Thursday in a filing in docket 10-51. ASL Holdings, CSDVRS, Convo Communications,…
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Purple Communications and Sorenson Communications said they have made much progress toward developing "voluntary, consensus-based" Session Initiation Protocol standards, but that in order to implement SIP, providers must publish their domain names in the iTRS database instead of user IP addresses. They said the FCC hadn't yet directed Neustar, which runs the iTRS database, to clarify that the domain name use is permissible despite their request it do so. They said using domain names has several advantages, including that it would enable providers "to switch service centers for maintenance and incident mitigation by changing DNS [domain name system] entries thus increasing VRS service reliability." It also would also allow providers "to more easily identify the provider of a peer-to-peer call to work on interoperability problems," enable "DNS load balancing and advanced routing" and minimize robocall attacks that affect VRS, they said.