NRO News

NRO at ICANN 39

ICANN 39 / 5-10 December 2010 / Cartagena de Indias, Colombia he Number Resource Organization will participate in the ICANN 39th meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, 5-10 December 2010. The NRO booth at the ICANN meeting Representatives from the RIRs will be at booth number 12 in the exhibition area of the Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala Convention & Exposition Center to… Read More

Update on Global Deployment of Resource Certification

Public statements made about Internet resource certification by the Number Resource Organization (NRO) over the past 12 months set a date of 1 January 2011 for deployment by the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). While it is still expected that each of the RIRs will deploy a certification system during 2011, various complexities in different regions have meant that several… Read More

AFRINIC elects a New Representative to the NRO-NC

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that at the AFRINIC-13 meeting, Mrs. Fiona Asonga has been appointed as AFRINIC region’s representative in the NRO-NC for a period of 3 years starting 1 January 2011. We would like to congratulate Fiona for her election and wish her full success in her new mission. Kind Regards, Adiel A. Akplogan Chief Executive… Read More

Hans Petter Holen Elected to RIPE Seat on NRO NC

We are pleased to announce that Hans Petter Holen has been selected by the RIPE community to take the vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). He will serve a three-year term that runs from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2014. Selection took place during the Plenary session on Monday, 15 November 2010 at the… Read More

ITU Plenipotentiary October 2010 Guadalajara, Mexico

THE ITU PLENIPOTENTIARY The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is the United Nations agency for information and communication technology issues. Its stated mission is “to enable the growth and sustained development of telecommunications and information networks, and to facilitate universal access so that people everywhere can participate in, and benefit from, the emerging information society and global economy.” The ITU’s membership… 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).

Jason Schiller re-elected to the NRO Number Council

ARIN has announced that Jason Schiller has been re-elected to the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council from the ARIN region. He will begin serving another three-year term on 1 January 2011. More information on the NRO Number Council. Election results can be found at: https://www.arin.net/announcements/2010/20101007.html