{
  "id": "BRD-237",
  "slug": "brd-237",
  "title": "Short-code assignment needs a successful vetting status",
  "statement": "A successful vetting status on the brand and the content provider is required to be assigned a short code or to extend a lease.",
  "rationale": "Short codes are leased on a longer cycle than 10DLC brands are vetted, so a lease renewal can arrive when the vet has lapsed — and the renewal is refused for a reason that has nothing to do with the code or the programme running on it. Losing a short code is disproportionately expensive, because the number is printed on things.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "the vetting status",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "EXTERNAL_DATA"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_EXTERNAL",
  "authorities": [
    "CTIA",
    "Infobip"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Check the vetting status well before a lease renewal date and re-vet if it has lapsed. Done when a current successful vet is in place on both the brand and the content provider ahead of the renewal.",
  "effectiveFrom": "2025-03-31",
  "notes": "A short-code path requirement, recorded here because the vet is a brand-level artefact. What the user has to do is track the lease date against the vet date themselves — nothing connects the two, and the renewal window is short.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": false,
  "attestation": {
    "question": "Is a current successful vet in place on both the brand and the content provider, ahead of the short-code lease renewal date?",
    "howToCheck": [
      "Put the lease renewal date and the vet date side by side. Nothing connects the two automatically, and the renewal window is short.",
      "Re-vet before the renewal if the vet has lapsed."
    ],
    "failureLooksLike": "The renewal is refused for a reason that has nothing to do with the code or the programme on it — and the number is printed on packaging, vehicles and signage."
  },
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-237/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-237.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}