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Leaders & AdministratorsApril 28, 2008

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Leaders & Administrators Meeting

OBF #102April 28, 2008

Miami, FL


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Welcome & IntroductionsWelcome & Introductions• OBF Co-Chairs

– Dawn Kaplan (Telcordia)

– Lonnie Keck (AT&T)

• Co-Chairs & Administrators

– Name and Committee


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ATIS Staff AnnouncementsATIS Staff Announcements

• Welcome Mark Wagar, new Administrator for IP-NNI and Message Processing Committees

• Welcome back Anne Cameron & Katie Blakesley for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Committees


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Notes ApprovalNotes Approval

• Approval of OBF #101 (January 28, 2008) L&A Meeting Notes


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Leadership AnnouncementsLeadership Announcements• Betty Tavidian (Verizon) was elected Subscription Co-

Chair.• Lora Williams (Verizon) was elected LSOP Co-Chair.• Lavinia Rotaru (Sprint) was re-elected Wireless

Technical Subcommittee Co-Chair.• Bill Nattrass (Telcordia) was elected IP-NNI Co-Chair.• Claudia Matthes (EMBARQ) was elected BLG-MECAB

Co-Chair.


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Vacancies and Upcoming ElectionsVacancies and Upcoming ElectionsVacancies:• Local Service Migration

Subcommittee – Joe Scolaro (ATIS)– Election will be held when

Subcommittee determines the need to hold meetings again.

• UMA JLT (Dawn Kaplan)• SAG (Chris Read)

Elections:

May 2008• ISOP - Beth Welch (Oracle)

June 2008• Wireless – Deb Tucker (Verizon

Wireless)

July 2008• IP-NNI – Ryan Gfeller (EMBARQ)

August 2008• BLG MECAB – Jackie Feicht

(Creative Support Solutions)

• MPC – Barry Richards (Windstream)


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Committee ReportsCommittee ReportsThe report offered for each Committee at the Leaders and

Administrators Meeting held in conjunction with the General Session should follow the format below and represents the current/future work

and doesn’t include a recap of past activities:

– Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence) – Committee Scheduling

• How many new Issues are coming in during this OBF General Session?

• Any items of significance that will dominate the agenda and when they are scheduled to be discussed?

• How long is the committee scheduled to meet and what is the likelihood that you will either need more time to work or may finish early?

– High-profile Issues


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Committee ReportsCommittee Reports• Billing

– Barbara Vrahnos (NECA)

– Kim Russo (Tele-Tech Services)

• ETB - Provided

– Todd Christofferson (Verizon Business)

– Marvin Neal (AT&T)

• IP-NNI - Provided

– Ryan Gfeller (EMBARQ)

– Bill Nattrass (Telcordia)

• ISOP - Provided

– Cindy Kalakis (Qwest)

– Beth Welch (Oracle)


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Committee ReportsCommittee Reports• LSOP - Provided

– Carol Zimmerman (Wisor)– Lora Williams (Verizon)

• Message Processing - Provided– Pat Gregory (Mid America Computer Corp)– Barry Richards (Windstream)

• SAG – Sharon Weldon (TEOCO)

• SNAC – Sheldon Hogueisson (AT&T) – Jon Durst (Verizon Business)

• Subscription - Provided– Sue McCormack (Creative Support Solutions) – Betty Tavidian (Verizon)


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Committee ReportsCommittee Reports• UMA JLT - Provided

– Carl Larson (Wisor)– Dawn Kaplan (Telcordia)

• UOM-ASR - Provided– Steve Edwards (Qwest)– Andy Fitzsimmons (Telcordia)

• Wireless - Provided– Sue Tiffany (Sprint Nextel)– Deb Tucker (Verizon Wireless)


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ETB Committee Report ETB Committee Report – Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence)

• ETB actively participates in the SAG TFO, the UMA Joint Leadership Team, and EGCS. ETB sent a letter to OBF leadership from a customer requesting ATIS to consider chartering a team/sub-committee of vendors, TEM providers and at least 3 end user companies (that receive invoices from all the vendors’ billing systems.

– Committee Scheduling • How many new Issues are coming in during this OBF General

Session?– No new issues. We have four Open Issues.


– Issue 3192 – ETB will continue with update EDI Guideline to include the 997 Transaction Set


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ETB Committee Report ETB Committee Report – Issue 3215 – ETB will continue to assess the creation an 811

TS 50 Series Guideline to Allow for increased Billing and Reporting

– Issue 3229 – Amend ASC X12 References from TCIF to OBF


– We will be meeting until Thursday, May 1 at 5pm. We will have enough time to work on our agenda items.


– No high-profile issues at this time.


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IP-NNI Committee ReportIP-NNI Committee Report• Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence)

– Service Provider Identification (Issue 3073) – Ordering of IP Services

• Joint TMOC/OBF IPTV OSS Joint Team – Work continues on the IPTV Ordering with APIs document.

The focus will be on Advertising initially.• Quality of Service and IP Ordering (Issue 3057)

– Continued support is needed from the ISOP and LSOP committees

• Ordering mechanism(s) and parameters for upcoming IP products and services (EGC and NG-CI)

– Next steps needed– NGN Data Exchange and Settlements (2949)


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IP-NNI Committee ReportIP-NNI Committee Report• Joint Meetings

– TMOC/OBF IPTV OSS Joint team – Monday 1-5

– Joint Meeting on NGN Focus Groups Gap Analysis: Work Item F in section 7.5.3 QOS Resource Management (PTSC, PRQC, TMOC, NIIF, OBF IP-NNI, LSOP, ISOP) – Tuesday 8-10

– Working Session: Next Generation Carrier Interconnection (PTSC, PRQC, OBF, TMOC, NIIF) – Wednesday 1:30-3:30

– Working Session: Data Coordination (OBF, IIF, TMOC) – Wednesday 3:30-5

– Joint Meeting on Id Management Service Needs and Provider IDs for IP-Related Services (OBF, PTSC, IIF, WTSC, TMOC) - Thursday 8-10

– Working Session: Service Provider Needs and ID Management (PTSC, WTSC, OBF, IIF) – Thursday 10-12


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IP-NNI Committee ReportIP-NNI Committee Report– Joint Meeting on Profile Manager (TMOC, OBF, IIF Architecture, IIF

Metadata) Thursday 1-2

• Committee Scheduling – How many new Issues are coming in during this OBF General

Session? • Not aware of any new issues at this session. • Determine if there are NG-CI or IPTV issues that need to be

opened– Any items of significance that will dominate the agenda and when

they are scheduled to be discussed? • QoS – ordering related• Baseline document• IPTV Ordering Working Text review


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IP-NNI Committee ReportIP-NNI Committee Report

– How long is the committee scheduled to meet and what is the likelihood that you will either need more time to work or may finish early?

• The committee is schedule to meeting through Thursday.

• High-profile Issues

– All of the Joint team work

– NG-CI Work Plan issues

– Service Provider Identification

– IP ordering


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ISOP Committee Report ISOP Committee Report

• Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence)

• Joint meetings with UOM-ASR approximately 6 weeks following each general session to review issues in closure and IP-NNI Committee when requested

• Committee Scheduling


– Seven new issues for acceptance

– Three existing issues to work


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ISOP Committee Report ISOP Committee Report • Committee Scheduling

• Any items of significance that will dominate the agenda and when they are scheduled to be discussed

– None


– ISOP is scheduled to meet through Thursday at 5pm and does not plan to finish early

• High-profile Issues

• Issue 3203 – ACTI field edit to support roll/groom ordering activity


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LSOP Committee ReportLSOP Committee Report– Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence)

• Intermodal Subcommittee Meeting Monday, April 28 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

– Committee Scheduling • How many new Issues are coming in during this OBF General

Session?– 3 New Issues


– 3Q08 LSOG Issue Review• How long is the committee scheduled to meet and what is the

likelihood that you will either need more time to work or may finish early?

– LSOP is scheduled to meet through Thursday, May 1 until 5:00 PM


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LSOP Committee ReportLSOP Committee Report


• FCC Order associated with Porting

• Issue 3232 LSOG: Cleanup to Issues scheduled to be included in

3Q08 LSOG release


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Message Processing (MPC)Message Processing (MPC)

– Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence)

• MPC input on IP-NNI and SAG issues

– Committee Scheduling


– MPC is not meeting face to face at OBF #102

– Three virtual meetings were held since OBF #101 (02/02/2008 and 04/02/08)

– No new issues are expected to be introduced at the next virtual meeting


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Message Processing (MPC)Message Processing (MPC)


– Next virtual meeting: May 21, 2008

– Key agenda items:

» OBF #102 Readout

» Continued work efforts on the EMI Database open issues


– None identified


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UMA-JLT Committee ReportUMA-JLT Committee Report• Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence)

– Convergence Ad Hoc Group: Led for collaborating and coordinating among relevant committees on application tools, automation and data needs (modeling, XML schema, etc) to facilitate the reuse of service enablers and provide appropriate recommendations.

• Committee Scheduling

– How many new Issues are coming in during this OBF General Session?

• None

– Any items of significance that will dominate the agenda and when they are scheduled to be discussed?

• N/A.

– How long is the committee scheduled to meet and what is the likelihood that you will either need more time to work or may finish early?

• Not meeting at OBF #102.


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UMA-JLT Committee ReportUMA-JLT Committee Report

• Committee Scheduling (continued)


• Led for Convergence Ad Hoc Group work item on XML and data modeling standards and tools

• Sharing of OBF UMA/XML “standards” with other ATIS groups

• Ongoing work with MyEclipse vendor (Genuitec) to allow integrated schema generation from data model

• Information sharing with IIF Metadata Task Force, IPTV Working Group and TMOC regarding work done in OBF.


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• Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence)

– UMA-JLT:UOM-ASR Co-Chairs will participate in the following meetings at AMOC:* XML Compression Educational Speaker (4/30, 9:30-11:00 AM) (optional)* Joint ASR/LSR/WIR Technical Committee re: Nesting issue in MyEclipse (4/30, 1-2PM)* XML Data Coordination for Convergence (IIF MTD/OBF/TMOC) (4/30, 3:30-5:00 PM)

– ISOP:UOM-ASR Co-Chairs plan on participating within ISOP as time allows.

• Committee Scheduling – UOM-ASR is not meeting during OBF #102– Our next anticipated face-to-face will be OBF #103 to develop ASOG

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UOM-ASR Committee ReportUOM-ASR Committee Report


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• High Profile Issues

– None

UOM-ASR Committee ReportUOM-ASR Committee Report


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Wireless Committee ReportWireless Committee Report – Cross-committee Initiatives (issues, meetings, correspondence)

• Intermodal Subcommittee– Review Wireless Committee and LSOP issues/actions for

Intermodal porting– Begin working the new Intermodal Issue created to define an

Intermodal Porting document/process• UMA-JLT

– Review of proposed standards as they relate to the Wireless Committee

– Committee Scheduling • One new issue


– Monday & Tuesday: Discussion on Intermodal Subcommittee Issue


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Wireless Committee ReportWireless Committee Report

• The Wireless Committee will meet Monday through Wednesday with a four hour Intermodal meeting scheduled for Monday afternoon. The Wireless Committee has a full schedule and expects to finish Wednesday afternoon.


• Intermodal Issue to define an Intermodal Porting document/process


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2008 Issue Objective2008 Issue Objective• Completion of Committee Issue work in a timely manner

identified in 2008 OBF Objectives

• New process has been developed to manage issue tracking using the Targeted Resolution Date field


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2008 Issue Objective2008 Issue Objective• At the last OBF General Session, Committees were requested

to populate Targeted Resolution Date on all open Issues to facilitate new Issue tracking process

• Going forward, ensure all new Issues have this field populated during Issue acceptance

• Action plans required when Targeted Resolution Date is missed or changed. Targeted Resolution Date may only be changed upon approval of action plan.

• Each committee must provide a readout regarding the issue objective at the next SAG meeting during OBF #103.


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CorrespondenceCorrespondenceNumber of Correspondences for reporting period January 29, 2008 through April 28, 2008:

Sent: 5Received: 5

Please note:(S) represents Sent Correspondence(R) represents Received Correspondence


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CorrespondenceCorrespondence• 08Feb6-R FCC’s notification to extend deadline for Compliance

with Four Validation Fields to 7/31 • 08Feb12-R NIIF NRRIC to OBF regarding CABS bills- Instances

of non-payment with use of Next Generation Network (NGN) VoIP switch CLLIs™

• 08Feb27-S (and 08Feb27-S_att1) OBF to LNPA Working Group regarding the Unified Modeling Approach (UMA) Presentation

• 08Feb29-1S OBF to Jim McEachern (NGN Liaison to OBF) regarding Inter-Operator Identifier (IOI) in IMS transit Network configuration

• 08Feb29-2S OBF to OBF Member Companies with an update to the Notification to Discontinue Publishing New Local Service Order and Pre-Order Standards for EDI and CORBA Interface Specifications


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CorrespondenceCorrespondence• 08Mar19-S (and 08Mar19-S_att1) OBF to IIF and TMOC

regarding Convergence Workshop Action Item for XML data Coordination

• 08Mar27-R ATIS Legal’s Comments Filed with the FCC Regarding Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) Regarding Local Number Portability

• 08Mar28-S OBF’s response to Yvonne Reigle, ATIS Director, concerning the CIO Council Initiative Regarding IPTV

• 08Mar28-R (and 08Mar28-R_att) Susan Miller, ATIS President and CEO, announcing the Inter-Carrier VoIP Call Routing (IVCR) Assessment and Work Plan

• 08Apr03-R (with 08Apr03-R_att1, 08Apr03-R_att2, and 08Apr03-R_att3) INC to OBF regarding Implementation of new Service Access Code (SAC) Code 533 - for Personal Communications Services (PCS)


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AnnouncementsAnnouncements• OBF #102 Committee Objectives Readout to be

presented at SAG during OBF #103 are due July 21, 2008

– The Committee Objectives need to include a summary status of all open issue targeted resolution dates


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Monday April 28Monday April 28• Leaders and Administrators

Orchid C/D (Wireless Room) 7:45 – 8:45 AM • Intermodal Subcommittee

Brickell Foyer (LSOP Room) 1:00 – 5:00 PM• TMOC/OBF Joint IPTV OSS Team

Orchid C/D (Wireless Room) 1:00 – 5:00 PM• Welcome Social Hour

Riverwalk Terrace Level 5:00 – 6:30 PM


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Tuesday April 29Tuesday April 29• Please note, there will be no Leaders Meeting• Ordering for QoS

IIF/OBF/PRQC/PTSC/TMOC Ashe Auditorium 8:00 – 10:00 AM

• ATIS Awards Luncheon James L. Knight Center (3rd Level) 12:00 – 2:00 PM


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Wednesday April 30Wednesday April 30• ATIS Legal Training for all Leaders

Ashe Auditorium 7:30 – 9:00 AM

• XML Compression IIF MTD/OBF UMA-JLT/TMOCAzalea B 9:30 – 11:30 AM

• Working Session on Convergence PRQC/PTSC/TMOC/WTSC Ashe Auditorium 9:30 – 11:30 AM

• File Nesting in MyEclipse LSOP/UOM-ASR/Wireless participants Hibiscus A/B (ATIS Member Welcome Lounge)1:00 – 2:00 PM


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Wednesday April 30Wednesday April 30• Working Session – Next Generation Carrier

Interconnect IIF/OBF/PRQC/PTSC/TMOC/WTSC Ashe Auditorium 1:30 – 3:30 PM

• XML Data Coordination for ConvergenceIIF MTD/OBF/TMOCTuttle Foyer (ISOP Room) 3:30 – 5:00 PM

• Reception for ATIS Committee Participants Riverfront Hall Central, Lobby Level 6:00 – 8:30 PM


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Thursday May 1Thursday May 1• Identity Management Service Needs and Provider

IDs for IP-Related Services IIF/OBF/PTSC/TMOC/WTSCAshe Auditorium 8:00 – 10:00 AM

• Working Session on Service Provider Needs and Identity Management IIF/OBF/PTSC/TMOC/WTSCAshe Auditorium 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

• Leader Meeting on Profile Manager IIF ARCH/IIF MTD/OBF/TMOCTuttle North 1:00 – 2:00 PM


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OBF 2008 Meeting DatesOBF 2008 Meeting DatesAssociated Activity OBF #102 OBF #103

Pre-Meeting OBF Start Date April 28, 2008 April 28, 2008

Meeting Materials Submission Date 14 days prior Monday April 14, 2008 Monday July 21, 2008

Agenda Package Posting to Website

As Soon as Practical after

submission dateAs Soon As Practical after

April 14, 2008As Soon As Practical after

July 21, 2008

Post-Meeting OBF End-Date May 1, 2008 May 1, 2008

Meeting Notes Packets and Attendee List

Posted to Web 14 days after Friday May 16, 2008Friday

August 22, 2008

Final Closure Issues Email Reminder

14 days after Notes Posted Monday June 2, 2008

Monday September 8, 2008

Issues Move to Final Closure

21 days after Notes Posted Monday June 9, 2008

Monday September 15, 2008

Final Closure Email to Participants

Following business day

after FC Tuesday June 10, 2008Tuesday

September 16, 2008

All intervals referenced are calendar days either before or after the General Session unless otherwise noted. The deadline is by 5:00 PM (ET) on the day specified.


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2008 General Sessions2008 General Sessions• OBF #103

– Hotel Contessa in San Antonio, Texas

– August 4-7, 2008

– Room rate $139

– Meetings• Leaders and Administrators Monday August 4 at 7:45

AM

• SAG Monday August 4 at 3-5 PM

• Leaders Meeting Tuesday August 5 at 7:30 AM


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2008 General Sessions2008 General Sessions• OBF #104

– One Ocean in Jacksonville, Florida

– October 27-30, 2008

– Room rate $149


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Upcoming MeetingsUpcoming Meetings

• SAG Regulatory Report: June 13th at 1 – 2 PM• SAG Meeting: June 26th at 11 AM – 1 PM

– Update on NG-CI Roadmap


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Open DiscussionOpen Discussion• Q&A

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Documents

comprehensive

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