November 2025

Committee Reports

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• INC: Industry Numbering Committee
  • Issue: 0987
  • Title: General Review and possible updates to ATIS-0300065, Location Routing Number (LRN) Assignment Practices
  • Statement: With the recent completion of INC Issue 0977, Update the ATIS-0300065, Location Routing Number (LRN) Assignment Practices for the combined NANP Administration System (NAS), it is recommended that an overall general review and update be performed.
  • Resolution: ATIS-INC updated ATIS-0300065, Location Routing Number (LRN) Assignment Practices, as shown in INC-2025-00122R002, to clarify certain sections and bring this specification up to date.
  • Status: Initial Closure

  • Issue: 1004
  • Title: Update INC Guideline Part 4 Forms to remove “By signing below”
  • Statement: The Part 4 Forms associated with ATIS-0300119, Thousands-Block (NPA-NXX-X) & Central Office Code (NPA-NXX) Administration Guidelines; ATIS-0300052, Non-Geographic 5XX-NXX Code Assignment Guidelines; ATIS-0300060, 9YY NXX Code Assignment Guidelines; and ATIS-0300050, Carrier Identification Code (CIC) Assignment Guidelines; no longer have a signature field, however, The statement “By signing below,” was left on the Part 4 Forms in error. The Part 4 Form in NAS has already been updated to remove the text “By signing below,” from the ATIS-0300119, Thousands-Block (NPA-NXX-X) & Central Office Code (NPA-NXX) Administration Guidelines; ATIS-0300052, Non-Geographic 5XX-NXX Code Assignment Guidelines; ATIS-0300060, 9YY NXX Code Assignment Guidelines; and ATIS – 0300050, Carrier Identification Code (CIC) Assignment Guidelines Part 4 Forms.
  • Resolution: ATIS-INC updated the Part 4 forms for the following documents: ATIS-0300119, Thousands-Block (NPA-NXX-X) & Central Office Code (NPA-NXX) Administration Guidelines; ATIS-0300052, Non-Geographic 5XX NXX Code Assignment Guidelines; ATIS-0300060, 9YY NXX Code Assignment Guidelines; and ATIS-0300050, Carrier Identification Code (CIC) Assignment Guidelines; as reflected in contributions INC-2025-00124R000, -00125R000, -00126R000, and -00127R000 respectively.
  • Status: Initial Closure

  • Issue: 1005
  • Title: Update ATIS-0300119, Thousands-Block (NPA-NXX-X) & Central Office Code (NPA-NXX) Administration Guidelines Appendix B to remove reference to Pooling Administrator
  • Statement: The Appendix B of ATIS-0300119, Thousands-Block (NPA-NXX-X) & Central Office Code (NPA-NXX) Administration Guidelines has a reference to Pooling Administrator in the lead in sentence. NANPA suggests removing Pooling Administrator.
  • Resolution: ATIS-INC updated ATIS-0300119, Thousands-Block (NPA-NXX-X) & Central Office Code (NPA-NXX) Administration Guidelines, Appendix B, as reflected in contribution INC-2025-00129R001.
  • Status: Initial Closure

  • Issue: 1010
  • Title: Update ATIS-0300057, Toll-Free Exhaust Guidelines
  • Statement: Toll-Free exhaust guidelines have not been updated since 1998. The issue is to bring the guidelines up to date with current practice.
  • Resolution: ATIS-INC updated ATIS-0300057, Toll-Free Resource Exhaust Relief Planning Guidelines, with the changes contained in -00139R001, pending availability of a link to the FCC website (per government shutdown). INC will notify SNAC of the update via email.
  • Status: Initial Closure

  • Issue: 1003
  • Title: Proposal to Reduce Rate Center Order Denials via Optional Immediate Code Assignment
  • Statement: Currently, rate center orders are sometimes denied due to block unavailability, even when blocks appear available at the time of submission. This requires users to submit a separate NPA-NXX code order, creating inefficiencies, delays, and duplicate work.
  • Resolution: ATIS-INC requested that NANPA add a column to the Pool Tracking Report titled “Number of Blocks Requested”, where number of blocks requested is the number of blocks requested in all pending Thousands-Block and CO Code applications for the rate center. This Issue will go into Initial Pending until the approval and implementation of a NANPA Change Order.
  • Status: Initial Pending

  For more information, visit the INC home page or contact Anna Karditzas.

• NRSC: Network Reliability Steering Committee
  • Issue: 0051
  • Title: Consider New NRSC-Generated Best Practices (BPs) for Submission to the Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC)
  • Statement: In 2020 and 2021, NRSC generated a number of Best Practices (BPs) from work on NRSC Issues 0045, 0049, and 0050. These BPs need to be evaluated for possible inclusion in the industry BP database by CSRIC. Edits to the BPs may be necessary to conform with the industry format of BPs.
  • Resolution: NRSC has updated the Best Practices from the Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness Response Checklists, and formatted them as standalone Best Practices for presentation and inclusion into the CSRIC database.
  • Status: Final Closure

  For more information, visit the NRSC home page or contact Mignot Asefa.

• PTSC: Packet Technologies and Systems Committee
  • Issue: 0183
  • Title: Group on Text Message Sender Identification Technology
  • Statement: The wireless messaging ecosystems’ multi-layered practices, processes and tools, including filtering and up-front vetting and registration, work to mitigate large volumes of fraudulent wireless text messages from reaching consumers. Despite these solutions, bad actors continue to seek out security exploits and evolve their techniques to target consumers with scams through Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Message Service (MMS), and Rich Communications Service (RCS) (collectively, wireless text messaging). ATIS-1000101 highlighted the current landscape of the wireless text messaging ecosystem and concluded that a forum was needed to consider the development of authentication technologies. The goal of this group is to consider whether innovative technical solutions are available or feasible to develop that would further mitigate bad actors use of wireless text messaging to originate scam text messages via verified identity transmission. Analysis to be undertaken should include identifying how verified identity and authentication solutions could be applied in the messaging ecosystem (e.g., edge, network-to-network, or endpoint devices.) See IPNNI-2025-00067R000 for more details.
  • Resolution:
  • Status: New Issue

  For more information, visit the PTSC home page or contact Anna Karditzas.

• WTSC: Wireless Technologies and Systems Committee
  • Issue: 0111
  • Title: Silent Alerts for WEA
  • Statement: On February 28, 2025, the FCC released a Seventh Report and Order and Eleventh Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) regarding Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA). In the Final Rules of this Report and Order, the following is stated: A Participating CMS Provider must support an alert originator’s selection of whether an Alert Message will be presented without either the common audio attention signal (§ 10.520), the common vibration cadence (§ 10.530), or both. The new rules also allow users, including those with disabilities, to override the alert originator’s choice to present the alert without the common vibration cadence to ensure their awareness of the alert presentation. A device must include the option to enable the presentation of the common vibration cadence for all Alert Messages. If selected, that option overrides the alert originator’s selection to present an Alert Message without the common vibration cadence.
  • Resolution:
  • Status: New Issue

  For more information, visit the WTSC home page or contact Anna Karditzas.

Definitions

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Recently Approved ATIS Standards

NRSC

• Document Number: ATIS-0100018(2025-11)
• Title: NRSC Pandemic Checklist
• Type: Revision
• View Here
• Document Number: ATIS-0100019(2025-11)
• Title: Network Reliability Steering Committee (NRSC) Emergency Preparedness and Response Checklist
• Type: Revision
• View Here

Recent Policy Filings

WTSC

• Date: 11/18/2025
• Description: Reply Comments in Response to FCC NRPM for Modernizing the Nation’s Alerting Systems
• View filing