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IPsphere Charter Jan-Jul 2012 for review & call for participation and sponsorship

Tanjad — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:36:46 GMT

Hi all,

please find here the DRAFT charter for your final review:
http://collab.tmforum.org/sf/go/doc20047?nav=1

Please express your interest if you would like to contribute to some of the deliverables, or are interested in creating other IPsphere Service Specifications.

In all cases, we very much welcome your feedback and team participation.

We will close the charter on the next Tuesday team call.

kind regards
Tanja

Process framework & process blue print in Group Opco

Tanjad — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:36:42 GMT

Hi Salman,

actuallly you posted your question in the right group :-)

to interact across bounderies between different affiliates (or departments inside one affiliate) you need to interconnect the specific business process implementations from the affiliates.

For this in general you need to
    1) abstract the internal private processes as (or "provide hooks" to) public processes
    2) agree on the steps contained in the public processes between the affiliates

IPsphere proposes one possible solution to the particular problem of enabling cross-boundary service delivery by:
    1) specifying public processes for publication, activation and assurance - which connect back to the internal private processes through MTOSI (extending the eTOM)
    2) specifying service specific information to be exchanged to enable the configuration of the cross-domain service (as IPsphere Service Specifications)
    3) specifying the process steps required to exchange the specific information of point 3 (e.g. this process is a BPMN derived script that is published as part of the IPsphere Service Specification)
    4) publishing the services available from an affiliate in an IPsphere public catalog for the other affiliates to find and use the specifications to build their own (composite) services (using the Catalog).

Please note that IPsphere today looks mostly at the service level and the problem of enabling the standardization of crossboundary information and processes for specific services,
and assumes that business aspects are fixed by the cooperating partners that use IPsphere together as the information exchange mechanism.
The (today DRAFT) IPsphere CookBook is the guideline for creating an IPsphere Service Specification that standardizes how to set up a particular cross boundary service.

You can find more information described in the TR158 IPsphere Framework document: http://collab.tmforum.org/sf/go/doc12045?nav=1
Please be aware that IPsphere is not defining a standalone framework, but a reference architecture the elements of which leverage and contribute to TMForum Frameworx.

We are today looking for contributors in testing and refining the CookBook and start producing IPSphere Service Specifications :-)

hope it helps,
Tanja

Re: Process framework & process blue print in Group Opco

JennyIvanushkina — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:12:20 GMT

Cross-posting to Business Process Framework group for answer. [quote user="Salman Khan"]

How the business process framework can be deployed across the group in which subsidiaries/ telecom companies are operating in a different market environment, having different process maturity levels?

Salman

[/quote]

Process framework & process blue print in Group Opco

SalmanKhan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:16:49 GMT

How the business process framework can be deployed across the group in which subsidiaries/ telecom companies are operating in a different market environment, having different process maturity levels?

Salman

IPsphere Charter Jan-Jul 2012 for review & call for participation and sponsorship

Tanjad — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:20:32 GMT

Hi Steve,

yes, we definitely want to look at how to leverage the TIP interface work or contribute to it. Let's discuss this week, if we can find some time, and see how to best tackle that.

cheers
Tanja

IPsphere Charter Jan-Jul 2012 for review & call for participation and sponsorship

Tanjad — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:01:02 GMT

Hi all,

Please find on the IPsphere project workspace the proposed update for the IPsphere Program Charter (Jan-Jul 2012) for your review.

Here is the link: http://collab.tmforum.org/sf/go/doc19844?nav=1

B2B is an important topic (even if many people had not much time to contribute in the past year),
and the creation of B2B specifications remains an issue to be strcutured in industry.

IPsphere is one of the few places where the topic of B2B interaction standardization is being addressed today.

Due to cloud-focus in industry where cooperations across domains is key, the time is more and more ripe to require increased participation from TMForum members in defining and applying a methodology to support standardization of B2B interactions.

The tool is the IPsphere Cookbook providing the IPsphere Service Specification methodology. It builds on TMForum Frameworx for the definition of data, processes and interfaces specifications.

Slow but steady progress has been made in 2011, and we are getting to a point where the methodology for doing actual IPsphere Service Specs (the Cookbook) needs to be finalized and validated by application to further B2B use cases.

The charter for the next 6 month targets to

Discuss with the SID team on the information model entities related to the IPsphere Service Specification.
Discuss with the TIP team to ensure alignment and support of the work on the interfaces required to enable IPsphere Service Specification deployment.
Elaborate the approved release of the cookbook based on the feedback from the B2B video use case currently being implemented and used to validate the approach.
Apply the cookbook to further IPsphere Service Specifications use cases and possibly implementations.

If you are interested to help drive B2B specifications becoming a reality, please review the charter, provide comments and confirm your interest through this discussion list.

This is a cross team post as we have identified that we will need to work with these teams, but anyone is welcome to join and support :-)

We also need interested service providers to become sponsors, so please let use know !!

Target is to submit the charter for TMForum approval on Jan 31st, 2012.

kind regards,
Tanja

Tonight's IPsphere call CANCELED

JennyIvanushkina — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:26:55 GMT

Greetings,

We will not have our regularly scheduled call tonight and will continue our dicussion on the Use Case on the next call December 13.

Regards,

Jenny.

Reminder - IPsphere call tonight 4pm EST

JennyIvanushkina — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:27:17 GMT

Greetings,

Just a friendly reminder that we'll have our weekly IPsphere team meeting tonight at 4pm EST - 9pm UK time. The agenda for today is:

Call for IPR
Presentation by Mark Watson on the work that he's been doing in the past few months: Catalogue use case in a B2B environment demonstrating cross domain product sharing between B2B partners.
AOB

Regards,

Jenny.

Reminder: IPsphere team call Tuesday 4pm

JennyIvanushkina — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:36:26 GMT

Hello,

Just a reminder for everyone that we'll have our team call on Tuesday at 4pm EST - 10pm CET. Agenda for the call is as follows:

Roll-call and IPR
Update on the cookbook draft and specification template progress (see links to the post by Tanja)
AOB.

Regard,

Jenny.

Re: IPsphere Cookbook [IPsphere] [#168433]

JohnR6 — Tue, 24 May 2011 04:59:04 GMT

Howdy, Tanja. I like the idea of using ProductOffering in the name as it could then encompass both ProductSpec and ServiceSpec. Plus, I think it would avoid confusion.

Re: IPsphere Cookbook [IPsphere] [#168433]

Tanjad — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:46:11 GMT

John Reilly , Senior Program Manager , TM Forum

Howdy, Tanja...I took a look at the cookbook...and have a question that has come up before...are the ServiceSpecs really Product Offerings, either from a customer perspective or a supplier/partner perspective, rather than ServiceSpecs? Thanks.

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Hi John,
Vary valid observation. We discussed this on the last team call and agreed on the following position:

The short answer is yes, that is correct.

The longer answer is that IPsphere focuses mainly on the ServiceSpec, hence the name of the document.

The product-specific ProductSpec aspects would generically be part of the document, but can usually only partly be standardized.

We have built into the template of the doc the room to include those product specific aspects that would be standardized.

From an industry forum and Spec usage point of view, one might expect it to be more practical that all info about one ProductOffering is in one document.

Do you think that that is the case and that using IPsphereProductOfffering will be easier to understand ?

If you and others of the Generic B2B team agreed on this, we are happy to rename the document in Cookbook and templates, to user the name IPsphereProductOffering in the top level info.

We will need inputs for writing the corresponding Coolkbook and template document parts :-)

Kind regards,
Tanja

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Tanja de Groot , Director Business Development Application Enablement , Alcatel-Lucent 5/10/2011 5:37:51 PM
PS: I forgot to include the link to the document, which is here:

Documents > Root Folder > IPsphere Working Documents > Technical Committee > IPsphere Cookbook

direct link: http://collab.tmforum.org/sf/go/doc14326?nav=1

Tanja
Tanja de Groot , Director Business Development Application Enablement , Alcatel-Lucent 5/10/2011 5:34:32 PM
Hi all,

I have uploaded to the document space a DRAFT version of the IPsphere Cookbook.

This document is to become the guidebook for people who want to create their own B2B interface specification, in particular for what we have defined as IPsphere Services, meaning services that require coherent handling of cross-domain dependencies between the composing elements of the B2B service.

The document will be reviewed by Mark Watson to make sure it is in line with the most recent Generic B2B and Catalog teams activities on the B2B interface approach.

The intention is to use the 3 main IPsphere use cases (see IPsphere charter) to refine the cookbook, and also to derive a template document that will help in IPSphere Service Specification creation.

Your comments and contributions are very welcome

Tanja

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Reminder: IPsphere team call today

JennyIvanushkina — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:16:26 GMT

Hello,

Just a reminder for everyone that we'll have our team call tonight at 4pm EST - 10pm CET. Agenda for today's call is as follows:

Roll-call and IPR
Update on the cookbook draft and specification template progress (see links to the post by Tanja)
AOB.

Regard,

Jenny.

IPsphere Service: B2B Ethernet

Tanjad — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:04:06 GMT

Hi all,

please find an embrionic draft of using the IPsphere Service Spec (IPSS) template for the B2B Ethernet Service.

We need help people to help fill the template for this use case.

We also use need their experience in turn to help refine the IPSS template and the IPsphere Cookbook, so that in the end we have the best tools for people to create new IPSSs

Documents > Root Folder > IPsphere Working Documents > Technical Committee > IPsphere Service Specifications > B2B Ethernet

direct link: http://collab.tmforum.org/sf/go/doc14328?nav=1 (for once I did not forget the link ...)

I used inputs from the TIP SM team to start it, but we are looking in particular for help from the TIP SM team to start creating these first IPSphere Service Spec(s) for this use case.

Please let us know if you are interested to contribute !

Tanja

Re: IPsphere Service Specification template

Tanjad — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:52:34 GMT

and the link to the document ....

Documents > Root Folder > IPsphere Working Documents > Technical Committee > IPsphere Service Specifications > Template document >

direct link: http://collab.tmforum.org/sf/go/doc14329?nav=1

IPsphere Service Specification template

Tanjad — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:49:56 GMT

Hi all,

I have posted on the IPsphere document space an initial draft of the IPsphere Service Specification template document.

This document is to become a tool for people who want to standardize a B2B service, in particular, but not limited to, for what we have defined as IPsphere Services, meaning services that require coherent handling of cross-domain dependencies between the composing elements of the B2B service.

this template should be enriched following the excersize of buiding the 3 use cases selected in the IPsphere charter:

B2B Ethernet service (building on TIP SM work - needs help from TIP SM team :-))
B2B Video Delivery service
B2B VPN service

Please let us know if you are interested to contribute to the elaboration and documentation (!) of any of these use cases.

You can also submit requests for other B2B use cases, which will go into the IPsphere Service Roadmap (draft to be published soon).

Tanja

Re: IPsphere Cookbook

Tanjad — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:37:51 GMT

PS: I forgot to include the link to the document, which is here:

Documents > Root Folder > IPsphere Working Documents > Technical Committee > IPsphere Cookbook

direct link: http://collab.tmforum.org/sf/go/doc14326?nav=1

Tanja

IPsphere Cookbook

Tanjad — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:34:32 GMT

Hi all,

I have uploaded to the document space a DRAFT version of the IPsphere Cookbook.

This document is to become the guidebook for people who want to create their own B2B interface specification, in particular for what we have defined as IPsphere Services, meaning services that require coherent handling of cross-domain dependencies between the composing elements of the B2B service.

The document will be reviewed by Mark Watson to make sure it is in line with the most recent Generic B2B and Catalog teams activities on the B2B interface approach.

The intention is to use the 3 main IPsphere use cases (see IPsphere charter) to refine the cookbook, and also to derive a template document that will help in IPSphere Service Specification creation.

Your comments and contributions are very welcome

Tanja

Reminder - IPsphere team call tonight

JennyIvanushkina — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:42:48 GMT

Good Morning,

Just a reminder for everyone that we'll have our team call tonight at 4pm EST - 10pm CET. Agenda for today's call is as follows:

Roll-call and IPR
Update on the cookbook draft and specification progress
Update on marketing with Fed SLA catalyst (Andrew or Mark?)
Status of TR157 and TR158.
AOB.

Regard,

Jenny.

Reminder - IPsphere call tonight

JennyIvanushkina — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:38:23 GMT

Hello,

Just a quick reminder that we'll have our Team Meeting today at 4pm EST - 10pm CET. Currently agenda is set to discuss the following:

Plan for TAW and TMW
Frequency of the team meetings
Update on Cookbook progress
AOB.

Regards,

Jenny.

Re: IPsphere Program charter

JennyIvanushkina — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:24:39 GMT

Hello everyone,

just wanted to let you all know that the Charter for IPsphere project has been approved by TM Forum. Congratulations to the team and I hope to see good progress on the project deliverables in the next few months.

Regards,

Jenny.