Public Notice: Common Carrier Bureau Receives North American Numbering Council (NANC) Requirements Document for Thousand Block Pool Administration

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Federal Communications Commission
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DA 00-0074

Released: January 14, 2000

COMMON CARRIER BUREAU RECEIVES NORTH AMERICAN NUMBERING
COUNCIL (NANC) REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT FOR THOUSAND BLOCK POOL
ADMINISTRATION
CC Docket 99-200

On January 10, 2000, the North American Numbering Council (NANC)⁽¹⁾ forwarded the Thousand-Block Pool Administrator Requirements Document (PA Requirements Document) to the Chief, Common Carrier Bureau (Bureau), Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for information and consideration in the Numbering Resource Optimization (NRO) proceeding.⁽²⁾ The NANC developed the PA Requirements Document over a period of twelve months and approved the final draft during a conference call on December 22, 1999.

In the NRO NPRM, the Commission tentatively concluded that implementing thousands-block pooling is an important numbering optimization strategy that is essential to extending the life of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).⁽³⁾ Thousand-block number pooling is an alternative method for the assignment of numbering resources. Instead of assigning all 10,000 numbers within an NXX code⁽⁴⁾ to a single service provider, thousands-block pooling involves the allocation of telephone numbers within an NXX code in blocks of a thousand sequential numbers to different service providers in a particular rate area. A Pool Administrator will coordinate and administer the allocation of the thousands blocks.

The PA Requirements Document sets forth the NANC's recommendation for the scope of responsibilities and functional requirements of a national number Pooling Administrator.

The Requirements Document is available via the Internet at www.fcc.gov/ccb/Nanc/nanccorr.html. This public notice is being issued to inform all interested parties that the PA Requirements Document will be included in the record of the NRO proceeding (CC Docket 99-200).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tejal Mehta at (202) 418-2320 or via the Internet at tmehta@fcc.gov. The address is: Network Services Division, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, 445 12^th Street, S.W., Suite 6-A207, Washington, DC 20554 .

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¹   The NANC was created under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2 (1988), to advise the Commission and to make recommendations, reached through consensus, that foster efficient and impartial number administration. The membership of NANC, which includes thirty-two voting members and four special non-voting members, was selected to represent all segments of the telecommunications industry as well as regulatory entities and consumer groups with interests in numbering administration. The current NANC charter directs the Council to develop recommendations on numbering policy issues and facilitate number conservation including identification of technical solutions to numbering exhaust.
²    See Numbering Resource Optimization, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket No. 99-200, FCC 99-122 (rel. June 2, 1999).

³   The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is the basic numbering scheme for the telecommunications networks located in Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Turks & Caicos Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United States (including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
⁴   NXX code or central office code refers to the second three digits (also called digits D-E-F) of a ten-digit telephone number in the form NXX-NXX-XXXX, where N represents any one of the numbers 2 through 9 and X represents one of the numbers 0 through 9. 47 C.F.R. § 52.7(c).

	PUBLIC NOTICE
	Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554	News media information 202 / 418-0500 Fax-On-Demand 202 / 418-2830 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov ftp.fcc.gov

	DA 00-0074
	Released: January 14, 2000
	COMMON CARRIER BUREAU RECEIVES NORTH AMERICAN NUMBERING COUNCIL (NANC) REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT FOR THOUSAND BLOCK POOL ADMINISTRATION CC Docket 99-200 On January 10, 2000, the North American Numbering Council (NANC)⁽¹⁾ forwarded the Thousand-Block Pool Administrator Requirements Document (PA Requirements Document) to the Chief, Common Carrier Bureau (Bureau), Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for information and consideration in the Numbering Resource Optimization (NRO) proceeding.⁽²⁾ The NANC developed the PA Requirements Document over a period of twelve months and approved the final draft during a conference call on December 22, 1999. In the NRO NPRM, the Commission tentatively concluded that implementing thousands-block pooling is an important numbering optimization strategy that is essential to extending the life of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).⁽³⁾ Thousand-block number pooling is an alternative method for the assignment of numbering resources. Instead of assigning all 10,000 numbers within an NXX code⁽⁴⁾ to a single service provider, thousands-block pooling involves the allocation of telephone numbers within an NXX code in blocks of a thousand sequential numbers to different service providers in a particular rate area. A Pool Administrator will coordinate and administer the allocation of the thousands blocks. The PA Requirements Document sets forth the NANC's recommendation for the scope of responsibilities and functional requirements of a national number Pooling Administrator. The Requirements Document is available via the Internet at www.fcc.gov/ccb/Nanc/nanccorr.html. This public notice is being issued to inform all interested parties that the PA Requirements Document will be included in the record of the NRO proceeding (CC Docket 99-200). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tejal Mehta at (202) 418-2320 or via the Internet at tmehta@fcc.gov. The address is: Network Services Division, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, 445 12^th Street, S.W., Suite 6-A207, Washington, DC 20554 . -FCC- ¹ The NANC was created under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2 (1988), to advise the Commission and to make recommendations, reached through consensus, that foster efficient and impartial number administration. The membership of NANC, which includes thirty-two voting members and four special non-voting members, was selected to represent all segments of the telecommunications industry as well as regulatory entities and consumer groups with interests in numbering administration. The current NANC charter directs the Council to develop recommendations on numbering policy issues and facilitate number conservation including identification of technical solutions to numbering exhaust. ² See Numbering Resource Optimization, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket No. 99-200, FCC 99-122 (rel. June 2, 1999). ³ The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is the basic numbering scheme for the telecommunications networks located in Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Turks & Caicos Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, and the United States (including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). ⁴ NXX code or central office code refers to the second three digits (also called digits D-E-F) of a ten-digit telephone number in the form NXX-NXX-XXXX, where N represents any one of the numbers 2 through 9 and X represents one of the numbers 0 through 9. 47 C.F.R. § 52.7(c).