Number Resource Society
POA & representation
The rules behind your IP addresses should answer to the networks that use them. Give NRS your mandate to bring your voice into registry decisions.
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Why your mandate matters
Your customers, contracts and revenue depend on your network staying connected. When registry decisions put your IP resources in doubt, your business bears the consequences. NRS Shield brings operators together to challenge that imbalance. Your mandate gives that collective action the authority to represent you.
A Power of Attorney (POA) gives NRS authority to represent your network. With your mandate, we can speak and act in your name where registry rules are decided. Your support becomes a voice at the table.
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What your mandate covers
NRS represents its members in Internet number-resource governance, bringing their voices together in the institutions and decisions that affect their businesses. Your POA names who acts for your organisation, on which matters and on what terms.
Your mandate covers governance and legal representation in RIR matters. It never transfers your addresses, your assets or your company: NRS acts for you, and the resources stay yours.
How authority becomes action
We use members’ mandates to organise collective action in elections, policy debates and institutional reform. If a particular election calls for a separate proxy or voting instruction, we contact you in time to complete that step.
Our goal goes beyond winning an election. The networks that depend on these resources must help shape the rules that govern them. Your mandate strengthens that effort, and we report back on the action we take on your behalf.
Read NRS’s AFRINIC 2025 election record
Before you sign
Ask the NRS team for your POA and the completion instructions. Read them with your counsel alongside your organisation’s RIR agreement, so the mandate fits your network.
Your POA sets out who represents you and on which matters, how long it lasts, how you can withdraw it, how your instructions are recorded and how NRS keeps you informed. Ask the team anything that is not clear; a confident mandate is a stronger one.
The POA Start Pack is NRS’s guide for AFRINIC members’ counsel. It compares what a member can do alone with what members can do together, and sets out the questions counsel should answer.
Open the AFRINIC POA Start Pack for counsel
Request your POA
Tell us your organisation, your RIR and the matters you want us to handle. We send you the POA and answer your questions. Once you sign, we confirm your mandate and explain any further steps needed for the action concerned.
Give your network a voice alongside other operators. Request your POA through NRS Shield below and add your weight to the push for change.
NRS answers to you
NRS answers to you for the work we do in your name. Tell us what matters to your network; ask about our priorities, actions and next steps. We keep you informed, and publish both our action record and the organisations we represent.