RN310 Information Framework Release Notes R16.0.1

This release of the Information Framework contains enhancements to it, including:

• Updates to Engaged Party and Customer ABEs to reflect the relationship between/among them, specifically in the Party and Customer Payment and Party and Customer Order ABEs
• Continued alignment of the model and documentation
• Updates to the relationships among Product, Service, and Resource domain entities, including the relationship between, and views of, ProductSpecification and CustomerFacingServiceSpecification and between Product and CustomerFacingService
• Introduction of new types of catalogs and the dynamic specification of any catalog and its generation at run time
• Introduction of Network Function specification entities to the Resource domain and removal of preliminary status from the Event, Topology, and Virtual Resource ABEs
• Clarifies the Entity / EntitySpec inheritance tree and the way to describe managed entities Continued alignment with the Business Process Framework (eTOM).