Application Map
The team has produced a stable level 1 diagram and draft supporting the guidebook and it's open call has produced an additional five new team members. It's next steps this year are to complete additional work on the draft guidebook, GB929, for delivery at TeleManagement World in Nice.
CO-OP
The CO~OP Marketing Team met Tuesday during Team Action Week. The primary focus was the marketing message for the TMF Living Lab Demonstration CO~OP will be doing in Nice. The Team agreed to demonstration scenarios, the central message and created an action plan for the period between now and TMW Nice.
ETOM
The eTOM team worked on the new ITIL/eTOM GB921V interim document and the new example NGOSS Contracts GB921N document in NGOSS 5.0. It held meetings with iBPM Catalyst, SID, Lifecycle and RA, and emerging NGN-M Focus Group. It made a commitment with the iBPM Catalyst and SID Teams to develop an example NGOSS System View Contract aimed at TeleManagement World in Nice. It also agreed an ongoing review with the Lifecycle Team on NGOSS Contracts, and linking eTOM Compliance and overall NGOSS Lifecycle/Methodology Compliance.
Industry Group Liaison Council
This group formed a new team, New Generation Networks - Management (NGN-M) to focus the TM Forum's work on NGN management in support of an industry-wide effort to develop specifications in a short time-frame. The team agreed upon membership and leadership of the NGN-M team and reviewed its initial task list and determined its first deliverables: these are an NGN Management Strategy slide set and briefing paper.
Lifecycle and Methodology & Architecture
The team developed more detailed NGOSS Method and SANRR Guide Tables and met with the NGOSS/MDA catalyst teams and eTOM teams to agree joint work. For the coming year the team will work with Model Driven NGOSS Catalyst, develop and publish a new L&M Guidebook, GB931, which will define how to use the NGOSS L&M and provide examples of its use and a short guidebook on how to use L&M.
MTNM
The MTNM Program teams were strongly represented at the TAW and made good progress during the week with the Ethernet and Control Plane teams continuing to work on their deliverables for version 3.5 of the MTNM document suite. The teams also spent some time discussing their plans for future work including an excellent discussion on how to move forward with the modelling of MPLS.
MTOSI
The MTOSI team (also part of the MTNM Program) did some excellent work towards completing the first phase of their project and are on track to make their deliverable dates in time for their demonstration at the Nice TMW in May. They also spent some time reviewing the next phase of their project including planning on how they will link in with the work being carried out by the OSS/J initiative.
MTNM/SID
Representatives of both the MTNM program and the SID team met to continue their activity of mapping the SID (information model) and the MTNM implementation. The joint team continued to make excellent progress and are on track to deliver their mapping document in the Nice TMW timeframe. The discussion between the two teams included an agreement to reflect the MTOSI updates to the MTNM specifications in the mapping document.
NGOSS application Teams Catalysts
Eight Catalyst Teams met at Team Action Week
- Business Process Management
- Business Activity Monitoring
- Content & Data Charging
- Customer Centric Service Assurance
- NGOSS Business View Compliance
- NGOSS through Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
- Open Source NGOSS
- Revenue Assurance
All the teams were able to solidify their project plans and all gained insight from meeting with the NGOSS Framework & modeling teams. These catalyst projects are shaping up to be some of the first real-life practical applications of NGOSS.
Revenue Assurance Modelling
The team started work on three new or upgraded sections for the next release of TR131 and kicked off work with eTOM and SID teams which will continue through the year. Its plans for the next six months include the release of the technical report TR131 after its member review, and work on the Revenue Assurance Catalyst at TeleManagement World in Nice in May.
Services Over IP
This team finalized its TMF 516 version 1.0 and will be submitting it to the Approvals Committee. The team is now officially closed and the SPLC will determine the next steps.
SID
Members of the SID team were very active during the TAW spending much of their time working with the other technical teams. This included discussions with the billing teams to identify candidate ABEs to support revenue assurance and content billing. Other collaborative meetings focussed on the eTOM/SID mappings and contracts, development of the SID XSDs and other additions to the SID. In their 'spare time' the team discussed the charter for the next phase of the SID development.
SLA Management
The team completed the bulk of its editing of GB917 v. 2.5; refined the VoIP SLA Application Note and heard a range of presentations on both TM Forum topics and from outside organizations. This year it will release and market GB917 v.2.5 and GB917-A and will continue the preparation of GB917 v.2.5 for possible submission as an ITU-T standard.
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