ATIS Management and Operations Standards Development

DOCUMENT #: GSC13-PLEN-40

FOR: Presentation

SOURCE: ATIS

AGENDA ITEM: Plenary; ICT Management and Operations; 6.10

CONTACT(S): Michael Fargano, Qwest (Michael.Fargano@qwest.com)

Submission Date:July 1, 2008

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Telecom Management and Operations Committee (TMOC)• Currently focusing on following Mgt&Ops work:

– Accounting Management; collaboration with TM Forum/IPDR.org, ATIS Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF), ITU-T SG4

– IPTV Mgt; collaboration with ATIS OBF, ATIS IIF, ITU-T SG4– NGN Mgt; collaboration with ITU-T SG4, NGNM Focus Group

(migrating to ITU-T SG4 hosted JCA)– Trouble Administration (OSS-OSS Interconnection)– Mgt&Ops aspects of ATIS Board/TOPS Council driven work,

e.g., NGN, Interconnected VoIP Call Routing and Registry Provisioning, Security, Convergence, NGN Interconnection, NGN Disaster Recovery Guidelines.

– Coding and Maintenance Agent aspects of NGN Service Provider ID

Highlight of Current Activities (1)

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Telecom Management and Operations Committee (TMOC)• Recently completed work:

– IPTV OSS Architecture; collaboration with ATIS OBF

– Accounting Management Framework (revision)

– Harmonization of Trouble Type Codes

– Completion of ITU-T SG4 Security Management System Recommendation (initiated and driven by TMOC work)

Highlight of Current Activities (2)

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Strategic Direction

• Work on essential Mgt&Ops standards gaps• Work Mgt&Ops aspects of ATIS BoD/TOPS Council work

programs• Coordinate/collaborate with other organizations where

appropriate

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Challenges

Industry wide challenges for Mgt&Ops Standards development:• Nexus of IT and Telecom (two dynamic environments)• Focus on network/service specific aspects of Mgt&Ops

– Thus common aspects of Mgt&Ops are deemphasized and work is highly distributed across many committees and forums

• Distributed Mgt&Ops experts across many committees and forums– Given limited and distributed resources, selecting

essential standards gaps to work on with maximum industry/member benefit, and coordinating across the many forums is a challenge

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Next Steps/Actions

• Complete currently defined work program• Continue to support Mgt&Ops aspects of ATIS Board/TOPS

Council driven strategic work• Continue with cross-organizational coordination and

collaboration

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Proposed Resolution

• N/A

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Supplemental Slides

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TMOC Mission/Scope

• Link: http://www.atis.org/0130/index.asp • Mission: The Telecom Management and Operations Committee

(TMOC) develops operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning standards, and other documentation related to Operations Support System (OSS) and Network Element (NE) functions and interfaces for communications networks - with an emphasis on standards development related to U.S.A. communication networks in coordination with the development of international standards.– Scope: The scope of the work in TMOC includes the development of

standards and other documentation for communications network operations and management areas, such as: Configuration Management, Performance Management (including in-service transport performance management), Fault Management, Security Management (including management plane security), Accounting Management, Coding/Language Data Representation, Common/Underlying Management Functionality/Technology, and Ancillary Functions (such as network tones and announcements). This work requires close and coordinated working relationships with other domestic and international standards development organizations and industry forums.

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OBF Mission

• Link: http://www.atis.org/obf/index.asp • Mission: The ATIS Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF) provides a

forum for customers and providers in the telecommunications industry to identify, discuss and resolve national issues which affect ordering, billing, provisioning and exchange of information about access services, other connectivity and related matters.

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TMOC Active Issues (1)

TMOC Issue Number and Title:

• Issue 57 - VoIP Accounting Management NE/OSS Interface - ANS • Issue 60 - ITU-T Study Group 4 • Issue 62 - ITU-T NGN Management Focus Group (NGN Subset of Issue 60) • Issue 76 - IPTV Accounting Management • Issue 77 - TMOC support for GTDD • Issue 81 - Inter-Administration Accounting Management • Issue 93 - IPTV Ordering Framework and API(s) • Issue 97 - Standard Provider IDs for IP Related Services • Issue 100 - NGN Accounting Management NE/OSS Interface - ITU-T • Issue 103 - IP Network Management Coordination • Issue 105 - Revision to ATIS-0300075.1-2006, Usage Data Management for

Packet-Based Services -- Service-Neutral Protocol Specification for Billing Applications

See http://www.atis.org/0130/issues.asp

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TMOC Active Issues (2)

TMOC Issue Number and Title:

• Issue 112 - Five Year Review of: T1.238-2003 – Information Interchange – Structure for the Identification of Telecommunications Facilities for the North American Telecommunication System

• Issue 129 - Update for IPTV OSS Functional Requirement and Architecture • Issue 130 - Revision of ATIS-0300003.2005 • Issue 131 - Consolidation of T1.227 and T1.227a • Issue 132 - Revision of ATIS-0300002.2005 • Issue 134 - OSS/BSS portion of the ATIS IPTV Dictionary • Issue 135 - TMOC support for NGN IPTV High Level OSS FRA - ITU-T • Issue 136 - TMOC support to the TMF's SDF specification

See http://www.atis.org/0130/issues.asp