NRO Acknowledges Awarding of IANA Functions Contract to ICANN

Letter from NRO Chairman regarding IANA functions contract On 10 July 2012 the Number Resource Organization acknowledged the decision by the U.S. Government Department of Commerce to award the IANA functions contract to ICANN. In this letter, from NRO Chair, John Curran, the NRO notes it looks forward to continuing its work with ICANN to facilitate community-driven policy development and… Read More

ICANN Formally Announces GPP-IPv4-2011 Ratification

ICANN has formally announced news that the ICANN Board has ratified the Global Policy Proposal for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA. The policy GPP-IPv4-2011 was sent to the ICANN Board by the Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Address Council on 13 March 2012. ICANN then posted the proposal for public comment from 14 March 2012 through 4 April… Read More

NRO Response to NTIA Request for Further Comments on IANA Functions

On 28 July 2011, the NRO submitted a response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Request for comments on the Further Notice of Inquiry on The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions. The NRO response is available at: https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/NRO_FNOI_Response.pdf NRO Secretariat

NRO Response to NTIA Request for Comments on IANA Functions

The NRO Responds to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Request for CommentsOn March 31, 2011, the NRO submitted a response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Request for Comments on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions. The NRO response is available at: https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/NRO-comments-to-USDoC-NoI.pdf NRO Secretariat

NRO letter to ICANN: the future of the IANA contract

NRO Letter to ICANN: the future of the IANA contractOn 14 March, the NRO sent a letter to ICANN endorsing a cooperative agreement on IANA functions to replace the contract between ICANN & US Government. The full text is available at: https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/nro_to_icann_re_iana.pdf NRO Secretariat

Free Pool of IPv4 Address Space Depleted

IPv6 adoption at critical phase Montevideo, 3 February 2011 – The Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced today that the free pool of available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. On Monday, January 31, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two blocks of IPv4 address space to APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, which triggered… Read More

Significant Announcement 3 February – Watch it live!

Welcome to live coverage of this event, where the Number Resource Organization (NRO), along with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) will be holding a ceremony and press conference to make a significant announcement and to discuss the global transition to the next generation of Internet addresses. Much… Read More

Remaining IPv4 Address Space Drops Below 5%

The Number Resource Organization (NRO) announced today that less than five percent of the world’s IPv4 addresses remain unallocated. APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region, has been assigned two blocks of IPv4 addresses by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This latest allocation means that the IPv4 free pool dipped below 10% in January, just nine months ago. Since then, over 200 million IPv4 addresses have been allocated from IANA to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).