NANC Report

Numbering Oversight Working Group(NOWG)

January 19, 2005

Co-Chairs:

Rosemary Emmer, Nextel

Karen Riepenkroger, Sprint

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Contents

• PA Change Order Recommendations for: #31, #32, #33, #34, #37

• Status New PA Technical Requirements

• Status of NANPA and PA 2004 Performance Surveys

• NOWG Jan-Feb 2005 Meeting Schedule

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PA Change Order Recommendation

• Change Order # 31 dated September 17, 2004• SP Enhancement – Expand Query Options for Donation Report This change order 31 proposes that PAS be modified to provide an

additional query options for the Donation Report. The only query option currently available is by NPA and gives the information from all of the OCNs listed on the User Profile of the SP requesting the information.

• The NOWG believes that this change order benefits the industry in giving SPs a way to further define the search criteria. The SPs would be able to obtain only the specific information related to their OCN(s) rather than getting everything in an NPA and having to re-sort to find their information. 

• The NOWG recommends that Change Order 31 be implemented at the same time as Change Orders 32 and 33.

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PA Change Order Recommendation

• Change Order # 32 dated September 17, 2004

• SP Enhancement – Modify Process for Deleting PAS Work Items

This change order 32 proposes that PAS be modified to provide additional options for deleting work items from an SP’s inbox. The current method is one item at a time.

• The NOWG believes that this change order benefits the industry in giving SP’s a way to delete items from their PAS inbox in multiples instead of the current one at a time – which is quite time consuming for carriers heavily involved in pooling. 

• The NOWG recommends that Change Order 32 be implemented at the same time as Change Orders 31 and 33.

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PA Change Order Recommendation

• Change Order # 33 dated September 30, 2004• SP Enhancement – Modify Search Forms/View Form query• This change order 33 proposes that PAS be modified to enable service

providers to view only the forms that are related to a specified thousands-block when specifying the NPA-NXX-X as the search criteria. In addition, a new NPA-NXX-X column will be added to the Search Forms/View Form query results screen.

• The NOWG believes that this change order benefits the industry by having the NPA-NXX-X on the Search Forms/View Forms query. As it is today when you specify a particular NPA-NXX-X to query, PAS generates everything that was submitted on the same PAS Tracking Number. (SP is looking for a particular NPA-NXX-X in a submission that was for a 4 block request. The PAS report generated is for all 4 blocks with no indication which is which. See Sample Report) 

• The NOWG recommends that Change Order 33 be implemented at the same time as Change Orders 31 and 32.

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PA Change Order Recommendation• Change Order # 34 dated September 30, 2004• SP Enhancement – Modify Part 1A Report • This change order 34 proposes that PAS be modified to add a column on the Part 1A

Report entitled “Part 3 Effective Date • The originator of this request was attempting to find a way to determine when the Part 4

would be due for block assignments. Since the Part 1A report is the only report currently available to SPs in PAS, this was an attempt to secure all of the information in “one place”. Note: The originator withdrew their request. 

• The NOWG believes that the purpose of this change order will be better served with a Part 4 report that was proposed in change order 25. Change order 25 was not recommended for approval by the NOWG due to the fact that the PA had not built-in enough flexibility in the search functionality used to create SP reports.

• The NOWG suggests that the PA should create a new change order (incorporating NOWG recommendations from 25 and 34) for a Part 4 report that lists not only the LERG effective date, but also the date the Part 4 is due for each block assignment. The report should also indicate if the Part 4 has been received or not. (Indication could be as simple as the date the Part 4 was received and this field should be blank if the Part 4 has not yet been received by the PA.) 

• Based on the above, the NOWG does not recommend that this change order (34) be approved.

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PA Change Order Recommendation

• Change Order # 37 dated December 7, 2004

• INC Issue # 458 – Reduce Aging Period for Returned/Reclaimed Blocks

• This change order 37 proposes changes to PAS to reduce the “aging period” on returned/reclaimed blocks from 90 days to 45 days. There are no changes in scope of the PA responsibilities, just system changes to various timers in PAS

• The resolution to INC Issue 458 will require a programming change to system timers in PAS.  The NOWG supports this change order because the industry will benefit if blocks are available for (re)assignment sooner rather than later.

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Status New PA Technical Requirements

• Reviewing PA Technical Requirements for suggested changes – Completed

• Identified sections for modification and upgrade – Completed• Recommendation to the NANC/FCC for consideration

at the March 15, 2005 meeting – In Progress

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Status NANPA and PA 2004 Performance Surveys

• The NANPA and PA draft surveys were circulated for comment on November 1st. Proposed changes were discussed and appropriate upgrades were made. The surveys are now in final draft status.

• Once the NANC approves the final draft, we will initiate the performance evaluation process. The evaluation schedule is attached.

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NANPA/PA Evaluation Schedule

Month Activity

January 2005 • January 19th NANC - Receive survey and cover letter approval and permission to initiate Performance Evaluation process• Surveys Posted to Number Administrator’s web sites on January 24, 2005• Surveys distributed by Number Administrators via email exploder list

February 2005 • Tally of surveys numeric and written responses by NOWG

March 2005 • Survey Responses Due Back to NOWG Co-chairs by March 4, 2005• March 15th - Progress update to NANC• Operational Review Meeting with NANPA in Sterling, VA (March 16 - 17)

April 2004 • Operational Review Meeting with PA in Concord, CA (April 12 - 14)

May 2005 • May 2nd - 5th - NOWG face-to-face meeting in Denver, CO• May 17th - Progress update to NANC

June 2005 • Week of the 27th - NOWG meets separately with the FCC, the NANPA and the PA to share preliminary survey results in Washington DC

July 2005 • July 19th NANC - NOWG presents final performance reports on NANPA and PA

High Level Timeline

• January 19th NANC - NANC/FCC endorses PA survey for distribution• Other January activity - Survey Distribution• February - Survey results tallied by NOWG• March - NOWG Analysis of Survey input, Ops review in Sterling, VA• April - Ops review in Concord, CA

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NOWG Jan - Feb 2005 Meeting Schedule

Contact either of the Co-Chairs for complete meeting or conference call details

Rosemary.Emmer@nextel.com or Karen.S.Riepenkroger@mail.sprint.com

(Other meetings for the NOWG may be scheduled as needed beyond what has been identified in this list)

NOWG meeting notes and documents are posted at nanc-chair.org

 

Thursday, January 27 2:00 pm ET

2 hrs

Tuesday, February 8 1:00pm ET

2 hrs

Thursday, February 24 2:00pm ET

2 hours