ATIS Management and Operations Standards Development

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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_at_qwest.com)
Submission DateJuly 1, 2008
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Highlight of Current Activities (1)

• Telecom Management and Operations Committee
  (TMOC)
• Currently focusing on following MgtOps 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)
• MgtOps 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

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Highlight of Current Activities (2)

• 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)

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Strategic Direction

• Work on essential MgtOps standards gaps
• Work MgtOps aspects of ATIS BoD/TOPS Council
  work programs
• Coordinate/collaborate with other organizations
  where appropriate

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Challenges

• Industry wide challenges for MgtOps Standards
  development
• Nexus of IT and Telecom (two dynamic
  environments)
• Focus on network/service specific aspects of
  MgtOps
• Thus common aspects of MgtOps are deemphasized
  and work is highly distributed across many
  committees and forums
• Distributed MgtOps 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 MgtOps 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/Technol
  ogy, 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