Change Orders

The Change Order section contains descriptions of the business functionality of the Number Portability Administration Center Service Management System (NPAC/SMS) as defined by the Number Portability Industry Forum (NPIF). The NPIF was formerly known as the Local Number Portability Administration Working Group (LNPA WG). Change Orders created/managed prior to the restructuring are identified with ‘NANC’ before the Change Order number. The NPIF has a direct relationship to the processes and systems that each Service Provider uses to participate in Number Portability. 

When a change in the NPAC software design is discussed at the NPIF, the proposed change eventually is described in the form of a Change Order. The Change Order document describes the business need for the software change and, at a high level, the software changes required to implement the proposal. As discussions progress, the technical portion of the Change Order is expanded to document both new software requirements and changes to existing software requirements that would result if the Change Order were implemented. Doc Only Change Orders may also be utilized to update Industry Specification(s) as required. 

In this section of the NPIF web site, all Change Orders ever considered are listed. The final Change Order document and the NPIF discussion notes, the Change Order status, and the identity of the software release in which the change order was implemented, are provided in the Change Order Summaries located below.

The status of a Change Order may be either Closed, Open, Requested, or Implemented. These terms are defined as follows:

  • Closed – The Change Order was considered and rejected.
  • Open – The Change Order has been considered and there may be further discussion.
  • Requested – The NPIF has reached agreement on the Change Order and either a Statement of Work (SOW) may be requested and/or the requirements updates (Doc Only) will be included in a future version of the Industry Specification(s).
  • Implemented – The Change Order was adopted and has been implemented in the NPAC system.


Summary & Guidelines


Title Date Originated Description Status Document
NANC 515 01/09/2018 LSMS XML Messages - Boolean Attributes Implemented Download
NANC 514 01/09/2018 XML Query Requests - Double Quotes Implemented Download
NANC 513 08/22/2017 LSMS Query Response Attributes Implemented Download
NANC 512 08/22/2017 SP Recovery Request RDN Implemented Download
NANC 511 08/22/2017 LSMS SV Query Response RDN Implemented Download
NANC 510 08/22/2017 Network Data Delete Recovery Implemented Download
NANC 509 08/22/2017 Modify Pending Old SP Auth Implemented Download
NANC 508 08/22/2017 Recovery SPName Implemented Download
NANC 507 08/22/2017 Effective Release Date Disc Implemented Download
NANC 506 08/22/2017 Not Filter Implemented Download
NANC 505 08/22/2017 Date Time Stamp Format Implemented Download
NANC 504 08/22/2017 Recovery of Modified SVs Closed Download
NANC 503 08/04/2017 Error Code File Clarification Implemented Download
NANC 502 07/27/2017 XML Optional Data Validation Implemented Download
NANC 501 07/27/2017 CMIP Synchronizaton Field Validation Implemented Download
NANC 500 07/27/2017 CMIP User ID Field Validation Implemented Download
NANC 499 07/11/2017 SV Modify of Due Date Validation Against NPA-NXX Effective Date Implemented Download
NANC 498 07/11/2017 Muliple Associations Implemented Download
NANC 497 07/11/2017 NPAC Customer ID in CMIP Key Exchange Files Implemented Download
NANC 496 07/11/2017 Conflict Restriction Rules for Old Service Provider Implemented Download
NANC 495 05/03/2017 Secure FTP site document clarification Implemented Download
NANC 494 05/02/2017 RR6-237 – XML Message Delegation Implemented Download
NANC 493 05/02/2017 Recovery – Association Functions Implemented Download
NANC 492 04/05/2017 Sunset Audit Notifications V1 Closed Download
NANC 491 03/08/2017 Turn-Up Test Plan Doc-Only Clarifications Implemented Download