# BRD-237 — Short-code assignment needs a successful vetting status

> A successful vetting status on the brand and the content provider is required to be assigned a short code or to extend a lease.

- **Rule ID:** BRD-237
- **Layer:** Brand (`BRAND`)
- **Checks:** `the vetting status`
- **Severity:** BLOCKING — Breaking this rule gets the submission rejected outright.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** External record we cannot query — reported as a warning to verify
- **Fix type:** Wait on an external system or a required interval
- **Required by:** CTIA, Infobip
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **In force from:** 2025-03-31
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-237/

## Why this rule exists

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.

## How to fix it

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.

## Check this yourself

**Is a current successful vet in place on both the brand and the content provider, ahead of the short-code lease renewal date?**

1. Put the lease renewal date and the vet date side by side. Nothing connects the two automatically, and the renewal window is short.
2. Re-vet before the renewal if the vet has lapsed.

*What wrong looks like:* 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.

## 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.