Number Resource Society
Your customers, revenue and continuity depend on IP addresses. Registry decisions can put that business at risk. NRS brings operators together through evidence, member-authorised representation and collective action to change the institutions they depend on.
Understand the risk. Build collective leverage before a dispute becomes a continuity crisis.
198 organisations have joined NRS.
Join NRSA dispute over your IP addresses can become a crisis for the business behind them. See how your registry’s rules expose you, and what changes when operators act together.
Review your RIR riskA Power of Attorney turns your support into authority: NRS can speak and act for your network where the rules are made. Every mandate makes the movement stronger.
Give NRS your mandateFollow NRS’s fight for Board accountability, member rights and resource continuity, and the elections where members made their voice count.
Follow the current issuesNRS reports to the members it represents: what we are changing, what we have done and what comes next. Tell us what matters to your network.
Contact the NRS teamEvidence
The documented record of registry disputes and governance failures, case by case.
The operators behind these records were refused, delayed or shut out by their registries. Their cases are the evidence behind NRS’s demands.
Explore the archiveRepresentation
Meet the organisations that have given NRS their mandate to represent them in RIR governance.
Each mandate adds weight to every operator’s voice.
See the representation recordThe Internet connects the world through independent networks. Its number-resource governance should be equally resilient. NRS advocates structural reform so that coordination cannot become a single point of control over those networks.
We turn that conviction into public advocacy, evidence and collective participation. Our charter sets out the mission; our work gives resource holders a voice in changing the institutions on which they depend.
Keep global connectivity unified and resist fragmentation.
Defend networks’ freedom to operate and the openness of the Internet.
Advance governance that reduces dependence on discretionary human control.
Explore the principles behind NRS’s work and the case for reforming Internet number governance.
Read the commitments that guide NRS’s public work and its call for accountable Internet number governance.
Read the charterLu Heng argues why NRS exists and why decentralization is no longer optional.
Read the noteTake part
Every network runs on rules its operators never wrote. NRS exists to change that. Choose how you stand with us.
Membership is free for individuals and networks. Members shape NRS’s positions, meet fellow operators and get the policy briefings that matter to their business.
Join NRSA Power of Attorney lets NRS speak and act for your network inside the registries. Every mandate makes the movement harder to ignore.
How a mandate worksThe movement’s news: accountability updates, member-rights analysis, events and training.
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