The intent of the Services over IP (SoIP) Business Agreement is to deliver a set of common business requirements needed to support the operational functions in managing and monitoring both the physical, logical resources and the specifications of their corresponding Customer Facing Services and Resource Facing Services Management Interfaces. This SoIP document provides a set of requirements and use cases that the TMF modeling teams can independently build a set of coherent (service and) Resource Management Interfaces to support service providers’ SoIP offerings.

The objective of the SoIP Business Agreement is to enable carrier-grade management of Services over IP. In order to achieve this, the goal is to trigger the development and delivery of resource management interface specifications that can be used for procurement by Service Providers for SoIP Business Agreement compliant products. 

These business requirements use various NGOSS artifacts, such as eTOM, SI...