Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)

The ATIS Technology and Operations (TOPS) Council identifies pressing technical and operational priorities, and coordinates standardization effort: across the industry to produce interoperable, implementable, end-to-end solutions Accomplishments in 2016 included: (1) Publication of "Calling Party Spoofing Mechanisms and Mitigation Techniques Report": This paper outlines practical mitigation technique: being developed on illegitimate uses of Caller ID spoofing and robocalling, and emphasizes Caller ID spoofing is not a static problem that can be solved with a singl Solution, but rather, a flexible, layered approach 1s needed to respond to these evolving threats: (2) Publication of "Neutral Host Solutions for Multi-Operator Wireless Coverage ur Managed Spaces Report": This landscape assessment defines the neutral host concept See Form 990, Page 2, Part Ili, Line 4a(contnued) Le

The ATIS Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC) addresses network reliability improvement opportunities in an open, noncompetitive environment and advises the communications industry through developing and issuing standards, technical require ments, technical reports, bulletins, Best Practices and annual reports. Accomplishment in 2016 included: (1) the NRSC established the Cause Code Consistency Task Force which conducted a study and review of Cause Codes used in the FCC Network Outage Reportin System (NORS) with the goal of increasing consistent use of the code; (2) The NRSC Non-Simplex Task Force was formed to collect Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) dat from all of the NRSC members and conducted extensive analysis to determine if there wer any underlying actionable causes to the rise in DS3 Non-Simplex Outages; See Form 990, Page 2, Part Ill, Line 4b (contmued

The ATIS Wireless Technologies and Systems Committee (WTSC) develops wireless radio access system and network solutions related to wireless and/or mobile services and systems Accomplishments in 2016 amcluded: (1) in collaboration with FEMA, DHS, Alert Originators Commercial Mobile Service Providers (CMSPs), and others, ATIS WTSC began developing best practices, enhancements, and solutions on Wireless Emergency Alert security, use of embedded references (e.9., URLs), increasing the maximum message lengt for LTE), localized WEA testing, device-assisted geotargeting, and studying the requirements and impacts for a WEA well-managed application that would reside on the mobil device; (2) developed the initial architecture and of the Nationwide Emergency Address Database (NEAD), which will store information relatec See Form 990, Page 2, Part Ili, Line 4c (continued