Purpose
The NAAN Registry Working Group (WG) oversees the registry of institutions that have been given a Name Assigning Authority Number (NAAN), with which they can begin assigning ARKs. The work consists mostly of responding to requests for new NAANs, but also to requests for changes to existing NAANs. Effectively the WG is a team of volunteer curators whose work will be ongoing. Although the WG is not expected ever to be finished, composition of the curatorial team is expected to evolve year to year.
Start here at this curator checklist for responding to NAAN requests. This will require access to a private github repo that should have received an invitation to join. Note that unless you have an unexpired cookie, you may have to re-authenticate at github to avoid what looks like a 404 error (a security "feature", not a bug for private repos :).
The Duty period starts when the monthly WG meeting begins (e.g., 9AM ) and it ends when the next monthly meeting begins.
During each Duty period a specific pair of curators – one primary and one secondary – is responsible for handling requests that arrive in their Duty period. Responsibilities of the primary or, if unavailable, the secondary:
The Chair and co-chair provide continuity. Their responsibilities include
The roster below indicates a primary and a backup curator on duty for a given period of time. The duties are (a) to respond to incoming NAAN requests within 2 business days and (b) to facilitate any NAAN working group meeting that falls in that time period. Here is the curator checklist to follow for responding to NAAN requests; note that unless you have an unexpired cookie, you may have to re-authenticate at github to avoid what looks like a 404 error (a security "feature", not a bug :) for private repos.
When | Primary | Secondary |
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2024 | ||
Jun 19 - Jul 17 | Bertrand | Romuald |
May 15 - Jun 19 | Chloé | Aurélien |
Apr 17 - May 15 | Romuald | Brian |
Mar 20 - Apr 17 | Bertrand | Sefakor |
Feb 21 - Mar 20 | Sefakor | Chloé |
Jan 17 - Feb 21 | Brian | John |
Dec 20 - Jan 17 | John | Brian |
^^^ 2024 ^^^ | ||
Nov 15 - Dec 20 | Chloé | Aurélien |
Oct 18 - Nov 15 | Bertrand | Maria |
Sep 20 - Oct 18 | Romuald | Aurélien |
Aug 16 - Sep 20 | Maria | John |
Jul 19 - Aug 16 | John | Brian |
Jun 21 – Jul 19 | Bertrand | Romuald |
May 17 - Jun 21 | Chloé | Aurélien |
Apr 19 - May 17 | Romuald | Brian |
Mar 15 - Apr 19 | Bertrand | Maria |
Feb 15 - Mar 15 | Aurélien | Chloé |
Jan 18 - Feb 15 | Brian | John |
Dec 22 - Jan 18 | John | Brian |
^^^ 2023 ^^^ |
Teleconferences are 9am San Francisco time on the third Wednesday of each month. Connection details included in calendar invitations.
Because this group handles personally identifiable information (PII), while anyone can send email to NAAN-Registrar@googlegroups.com, the discussion archives at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/naan-registrar are closed except to group members.