I NTERNATIONAL T ELECOMMUNICATION U NION
Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
Geneva, 25 October 2000
Ref:
TSB Circular 4
COM 4/Y-HC
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- To the Administrations of Member States
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- To ITU-T Sector Members;
- To the Chairman and Vice-Chairmen of
Study Group 4;
- To the Director of the Telecommunication
Development Bureau;
- To the Director of the Radiocommunication
Bureau
Subject:
Meeting of Study Group 4 with a view to approving 7
draft revised and 12 draft new Recommendations in
accordance with the provisions of Resolution 1, Section 9,
of the WTSA (Montreal, 2000)
Geneva, 19 January 2001
Dear Sir/Madam,
1
At the request of the Chairman of Study Group 4 (TMN and Network Maintenance), I have
the honour to inform you that this Study Group, which will meet from 15 to 19 January 2001,
intends to apply the procedure described in Resolution 1, Section 9, of the WTSA (Montreal, 2000)
for the approval of 7 draft revised Recommendations and of 12 draft new Recommendations.
2
The summaries and locations of the draft revised and new ITU-T Recommendations
proposed for approval will be found in Annex 1.
3
Any ITU Member State or Sector Member aware of a patent held by itself or others which
may fully or partly cover elements of the draft Recommendations proposed for approval is
requested to disclose such information to the TSB, in accordance with TSB patent policy (see
Resolution 1, Appendix III to Section 9, of the WTSA (Montreal, 2000)).
Available patent information can be accessed on-line via the ITU-T Website.
4
Having regard to the provisions of Resolution 1, Section 9, I should be grateful if you
would inform me by 2400 hours UTC on 3 January 2001 whether your Administration assigns
authority to Study Group 4 that these draft revised and new Recommendations should be considered
for approval at the Study Group meeting.
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Should any Member States be of the opinion that consideration for approval should not proceed,
they should advise their reasons for disapproving and indicate the possible changes that would
facilitate further consideration and approval of the draft revised and new Recommendations.
5
If 70% or more of the replies from Member States support consideration for approval of
these draft revised and new Recommendations at the Study Group meeting, one Plenary session will
be devoted on 19 January 2001 to apply the approval procedure.
I accordingly invite your Administration to send a representative to the meeting. The
Administrations of Member States of the Union are invited to supply the name of the Head of
their delegation. If your Administration wishes to be represented at the meeting by a recognized
operating agency, a scientific or industrial organization or another entity dealing with
telecommunication matters, the Director should be duly informed, in accordance with Article 19,
No. 239, of the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992), as
amended by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Kyoto, 1994).
6
The agenda, registration form and all relevant information concerning the Study Group 4
meeting will be available from Collective Letter 1/4.
7
Information on the meeting room will be displayed on the screens at the entrances to the
ITU headquarters building.
8
After the meeting, the Director of TSB will notify, in a circular, the decision taken on these
Recommendations. This information will also be published in the ITU Notification.
Yours faithfully,
H. Zhao
Director of the Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
Annex: 1
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ANNEX: 1
(to TSB Circular 4)
1
Draft new Recommendation G.852.16: Enterprise Viewpoint for Pre-Provisioned
Route Discovery
Location:
COM 4-20
Summary: This Recommendation specifies the enterprise viewpoint for the pre-provisioned route
discovery of a transport network.
The objective of the community is to identify appropriate routes for setting up, or reserving the
route components for (by using other communities), a trail, a tandem connection or a subnetwork
connection. It is possible to request conditions that have to be met by the identified route. In
addition to proposing routes, information is provided to help in the selection among the candidate
routes on the basis of a set of properties. In case of protection, the number of routes corresponds to
the protection scheme chosen.
2
Draft new Recommendation G.853.16: Information Viewpoint for Pre-Provisioned
Route Discovery
Location:
COM 4-2
Summary: This Recommendation specifies the information viewpoint for the pre-provisioned
route discovery of a transport network.
The objective of the community is to identify appropriate routes for setting up, or reserving the
route components for (by using other communities), a trail, a tandem connection or a subnetwork
connection. It is possible to request conditions that have to be met by the identified route. In
addition to proposing routes, information is provided to help in the selection among the candidate
routes on the basis of a set of properties. In case of protection, the number of routes corresponds to
the protection scheme chosen.
3
Draft new Recommendation G.854.16: Computational Viewpoint for Pre-Provisioned
Route Discovery
Location:
COM 4-3
Summary: This computational viewpoint specification is related to the pre-provisioned route
discovery enterprise and information specification. The objective of the community is
to identify appropriate routes for setting up, or reserving the route components for (by
using other communities), a trail, a tandem connection or a subnetwork connection. It is
possible to request conditions that have to be met by the identified route. In addition to
proposing routes, information is provided to help in the selection among the candidate
routes on the basis of a set of properties. In case of protection, the number of routes
corresponds to the protection scheme chosen.
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4
Draft new Recommendation M.1301: General Description and Operational
Procedures for International SDH Leased Circuits
Location:
COM 4-19
Summary: This Recommendation provides a general description of international synchronous
digital leased circuits with an SDH presentation to the Customer, and of the basic
requirements for their effective operation. The case of mixed SDH/PDH leased circuits
is also described.
5
Draft revised Recommendation M.3100 Corr.2: Generic network information model
Corrigendum 2
Location:
COM 4-5
Summary: This technical corrigendum corrects defects identified in Recommendation M.3100 and
Recommendation M.3100 Amendment 1.
6
Draft revised Recommendation M.3100 Amd.3: Definition of The Management
Interface for a Generic Alarm Reporting Control (ARC) Feature
Location:
COM 4-4
Summary: This amendment provides a new generic capability for controlling alarm reporting. This
amendment includes the requirements, analysis, and applicable designs for this feature.
7
Draft revised Recommendation M.3108.1 Corr.1: Information model for management
of leased circuit and reconfigurable services
Location:
COM 4-6
Summary: This corrigendum corrects some defects to Recommendation M.3108.1, 1999.
8
Draft new Recommendation M.3108.3: Information Model for Management of
Virtual Private Network Service
Location:
COM 4-7
Summary: This Recommendation provides a GDMO based information model to support the
management of the Virtual Private Network Service as outlined in Recommendation M.3208.3.
9
Draft new Recommendation M.3120: CORBA Generic Network and NE Level
Information Model
Location:
COM 4-8
Summary: This document defines a generic network information model to be used in
telecommunications network management based on CORBA. It defines in Interface
Definition Language (IDL) a set of generic interfaces and constants.
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10
Draft revised Recommendation M.3208.2 Corr.1: Connection Management of preprovisioned Service Link Connections to form a Link Connection Service
Location:
COM 4-9
Summary: This Recommendation provides some defects on "Information flows" to
Recommendation M.3208.2, 1999
11
Draft revised Recommendation M.3210.1: TMN Management Service for IMT-2000
Security Management
Location:
COM 4-10
Summary: This Recommendation provides description of management services, goals and context
for management aspects of IMT-2000 networks. This Recommendation provides a
profile for fraud management in an IMT-2000 mobile network and builds on the
function sets identified in Recommendation M.3400.
12
Draft revised Recommendation Q.816: CORBA-Based TMN Services
Location:
COM 4-11
Summary: This Recommendation defines a set of services that along with draft Recommendation
X.780 composes a framework for CORBA-based TMN interfaces. It specifies protocol
requirements, CORBA Common Object Service usage requirements, and TMN-specific
support services.
13
Draft new Recommendation Q.817: TMN PKI - Digital Certificates and Certificate
Revocation Lists Profiles
Location:
COM 4-12
Summary: This Recommendation is intended to promote interoperability among TMN elements
that use Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to support security-related functions.
14
Draft new Recommendation Q.832.3: Broadband Access Coordination
Location:
COM 4-13
Summary: This Recommendation, Q.832.3, specifies the X interface between the Operations
System of a Service Node and the Operations System of an Access Network for the
coordination of the management associated with VB5.1 and VB5.2 traffic interfaces
and the VB5 Q3 interfaces
15
Draft new Recommendation Q.833.1: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
Network Element Management Part 1 - CMIP Model
Location:
COM 4-14
Summary: This Recommendation, Q.833.1, specifies the Q3 interface between a Broadband
Access Network based on Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology
and the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN).
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16
Draft revised Recommendation X.731 Corr.2: Clarification to State Change Event
Location:
COM 4-16
Summary: This Recommendation is correction of the state attribute group, state attribute and
Change "state attribute" to "state or status attribute" defect report.
17
Draft new Recommendation X.731 Amd.2: Draft Amendment to X.721 and X.731 to
Support LIFECYCLE STATE
Location:
COM 4-15
Summary: This Recommendation specifies a hypothetical generic object model and is used as the
basis for the examination of additional states.
18
Draft new Recommendation X.770: ODMA Notification Dispatch Function
Location:
COM 4-17
Summary: This Recommendation specifies a set of UML descriptions of the OMG notification
service, thus placing it within the ODMA architecture.
19
Draft new Recommendation X.780: TMN Guidelines for Defining CORBA Managed
Objects
Location:
COM 4-18
Summary: This Recommendation specifies guidelines for defining CORBA-based interfaces to
software objects representing manageable resources in a TMN.
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