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NRO EC Update and State of the RIR System#

ARIN 56 Public Policy and Members Meeting digest Program Adjacent pick 30–31 October 2025

Slides Recording

John Curran, President and CEO, ARIN (NRO Executive Committee Vice Chair)

Play the recording: NRO EC Update and State of the RIR System

  • Why: Current-state context for the global registry system, including the AFRINIC situation and a concrete IANA SLA change affecting reverse DNS operations.
  • What: The NRO's report covering: close monitoring of AFRINIC (coordination with ICANN, support offered to the private receiver, engagement with the African community, and a welcome to the newly elected AFRINIC board); the first amendment to the IANA Services SLA (November 2024) adding reverse-DNS resolution service levels for ip6.arpa, in-addr.arpa, and the two -servers.arpa zones; and the NRO RPKI Program, whose goals are a single spec interface for entities interacting with multiple RIRs plus better cross-RIR robustness and consistency.
  • How: Governance and coordination reporting — NRO cost distribution (ARIN pays 32.71%), coordination groups, and the IANA Review Committee structure.
  • Where applicable: General awareness; the reverse-DNS SLA and NRO RPKI program are the two items with eventual operational touchpoints for multi-RIR organizations.