For detailed information about a specific team, you can click on the team name here below.

 The Interface Program consists of two types of teams:

• Coordination Teams: they provide governance, technical oversight and marketing across the entire program
• Product Teams:  they either provides the details concerning features or consolidates features into deliverables

Coordination Teams

The current Interface Program coordination teams are as follows:

• Steering team – handles a variety of items concerning the overall management, direction, change control, marketing, and product lifecycle processes for the Interface Program
   
• Technical Coordination team – handles the technical coordination across all the Interface Program working teams
   

Product Teams

The current Interface Program product teams are as follows:

• Framework team – is responsible of templates, tools and guidelines that are commonly applied to all interfaces produced by the program
   
• Implementation team – is responsible for the development of software components that can be used for developing reference implementations and conformance tests for the interfaces. An open source project has been set up with the goal of reducing the development time of these components
   
• Product Delivery team – is responsible for handling the packaging and delivery of the interfaces which include both new interfaces and interfaces from the original programs (mTOP, OSS/J, CO~OP, and IPDR)
    
• Feature Design Teams – provide details feature definitions including requirements, use case, information model and interface specifications:
   
  
  • Resource Management team – handles the specification of features related to specific types of resources such as technology-specific networks (e.g., management of T-MPLS), equipment and external plant entities
     
  • Service Management team – handles the specification of features related to specific types of services such as VoIP, IPTV and VPNs and other strictly service-level management items such as Subscription Management
     
• Interface Integration and Delivery (IID) Teams – are responsible for the preparation of unified specifications (including reference implementation and conformance test kits) using output from the Feature Design teams:
   
  
  • Enterprise Identity Management team - covers items related to security issues arising in multi-vendor mobile networks
     
  • Inventory team – covers inventory and discovery management for resources, services and products
     
  • Ordering and Activation team – covers ordering and activation for resources, services, products and customers
     
  • Resource and Service Assurance team – covers performance management, fault management, diagnostic and maintenance management for resources and services. Service quality management is also within the scope of this team
     
  • Trouble Ticketing team – covers trouble ticketing
     
  • Usage Data Management team – this team covers items related to usage collection and billing and includes IPDR-related activities