Industry Numbering
Committee (INC) Report
to the NANC
Dyan Adams, INC Co-Chair
Shaunna Forshee, INC Co-Chair
December 9, 2014
Overview
• About INC
• INC Meetings/Membership
• Issue 748: Assess Impacts on Numbering Resources
and Numbering Administration with Transition from
Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to Internet
Protocol (IP)
• Issue 783: CO Code Requests from New NPAs
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About INC
• The Industry Numbering Committee (INC) provides an
open forum to address and resolve industry-wide issues
associated with planning, administration, allocation,
assignment and use of North American Numbering Plan
(NANP) numbering resources within the NANP area.
• Membership
• To become a member of INC or ATIS, see
http://www.atis.org/membership/become.asp.
• To understand how INC operates, see
http://www.atis.org/legal/OP.asp
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INC Meetings
• Meetings
• Since the previous NANC meeting, INC held one face-toface meeting from November 18-20, 2014, and an interim
meeting on October 16th.
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Issue 748: Assess Impacts on Numbering Resources and
Numbering Administration with Transition from Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN) to Internet Protocol (IP)
• INC sent a response to the FCC regarding the impacts
of large-scale rate center consolidation during the
transition from PSTN to IP.
• This was reported in September and a copy was sent to NANC
members
• On November 19th, INC received informational
presentations on VoIP, IP and SIP interconnection, and
caller ID spoofing
• INC continues to work issues related to the transition to
the all-IP network
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Issue 783, CO Code Requests from New NPAs
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Prior to the in-service date of a new NPA code, there is a need to ensure the
appropriate supply of thousands-blocks is available in the exhausting area code(s).
Historically, code assignments could be made up to 6 months prior to the effective
date of the new NPA.
•
Although blocks from these codes may replenish the pool, they are not viable until the
effective date of the new NPA. As a result, SPs requiring a block prior to the effective
date of the new NPA are unable to obtain a usable block since the criteria for
assignment of a code to replenish the pool cannot be met, even though codes are
available in the current NPA.
•
To avoid this situation, a modification to the guidelines was made to change the
interval when codes can be requested from the new NPA from 6 months to 66 days
prior to the effective date of the new NPA unless there are no NXXs available for
assignment in the existing NPA.
•
Changing the interval will ensure a supply of thousands-blocks is maintained in an
exhausting area code, and thousands-blocks from a new NPA not yet effective do not
hamper the ability to replenish the pool with usable thousands-blocks.
•
INC expedited the closure of this Issue to allow the publishing of revised planning
letters to avoid this situation in current and upcoming area code relief projects.
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ATIS INC Webinar
• Spotlight on the All-IP Transition: Numbering Impacts
• December 11th, 1-2 p.m. ET
• No cost to attend; register here.
• Second in a series of ATIS webinars on the all-IP
transition. The first webinar, “New Wireless
Opportunities”, can be found here.
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Issues in Initial Pending
• Issue 768, Updates to the Part 1B form
• Issue 765, Updates to the Part 1A form
• Issue 770, Updates to the TBPAG Part 3 Form
• Issue 772, Update to the TBPAG Appendix 3:
MTE & Certification Worksheet
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Issues in Final Closure
• Issue 783, CO Code Requests from New NPAs
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Relevant INC Web Pages
• INC Homepage: http://www.atis.org/inc/index.asp
• INC Issues (historical and active):
http://www.atis.org/inc/incissue.asp
• INC Published Documents:
http://www.atis.org/inc/incguides.asp
• Anyone interested in information on INC or INC
documents can contact Jackie Voss, ATIS INC Manager,
via email at jvoss@atis.org or (913) 393-0891
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