Team, the following are the minutes of our January Operations
meeting as recorded by Lorin Pollock ((Sprint) Thanks Lorin).
The Italicized text are my additions from my notes. If there
are any additions and/or corrections needed to the minutes, please
feel free to contact me (312-220-8000), and I will be glad to
add to or reflect any changes necessary.
Barry
In attendance:
Walt Subora Ameritech
Jim Joerger MCI
Bill Belshaw MCI
Dick Dowd MCI
Darin Liston Sprint
Bryon Bentlin Lockheed Martin IMS
Richard Anderson World Com/MFS
Lorin Pollock Sprint
Ed Elkin AT&T
Joan Ahern Bell Atlantic
Alice Shocket NYNEX
Maggie Lee Illuminet
Karen Kay Time Warner
Gene Johnston GTE
Arthur Brett TCG
David Loose Sprint
Tom Sensabaugh Bellcore
Victoria Cerinich CPD/INENA
Sue Seitz Ameritech
Richard Nore Chicago OEC
Jeff Rodrigues Chicago OEC (911)
Rick Jones INENA
Jeff Wells WorldCom
Don Dabney SWBT
Hazel Wagner B9D/Nortel
Mark Lancaster AT&T
Phil Presworsky TCG
LNP MEETING JAN. 6, 1997
PROVISIONING ISSUE DISCUSSION:
Review of changes made to process flows that have been agreed
to :
Added "on LSR" to box New Service Provider notes only partial changes of service in remarks.
Remove notes 1 & 2 from Draft 3 of Provisioning Process flow and add to the flow narratives.
What is the designated time referred to in the "Did NPAC receive both and accurate notifications in the designated time?" Original discussion stated 18 hours. Ed of AT&T discussed 9 hours for each box? Agreed to change to 9 hours for each timer decision box and remove question mark.
Victoria Cerinich of Chicago Police bought up adding a box to
contact the PSAT administrator when the order is committed to
proceed in order to update the ALI data base. Major discussion
about who and how the ALI data base is updated with portability.
Decided to establish a 911 SME meeting to discuss issues related
to the ALI data base.
Two basic issues:
!.) Co ordination of orders to the ALI data base from old and
new SP.
2.) Notification of the opening of NPA/NXX to the ALI Administrator
and/or PSAP providers needing this information.
A separate ICC Operations/911 meeting will be held:
January 29. 1997
08:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Rm 463
350 Orleans, Chicago, Ill (this is the Ameritech Training center on the 4th floor of the Holiday Inn building).
For those who cannot attend in person a conference bridge will be available
(312-814-8097). This is a meet-me bridge and will just drop
you into the conference. Please note that due to the size of the
room, it may be hard to hear on the conference bridge, and you
will not be able to receive any handouts or see any drawings on
the whiteboard or vu-graph. While this meeting as usual
is open to everyone, it is expected that Telco Service
Providers and Emergency Service Providers (also PSAP and Database
vendors) would be expected to attend. A memo has been previously
sent (via fax) with some of the issues from INENA. (BB)
CONFLICT RESOLUTION Process Flow review.
Change box "NPAC reject Conflict request. Send notification
to both SPs." to " NPAC rejects Conflict request."
deleting "Send notification to both SPs."
Major discussion about time related to decision box "Old
SP initiating Conflict less than one day prior to DD?" Conflict
cannot be started after 00:01 of the day before the due date,
one full day plus hours to the due time on due date. Change
decision box to "Old SP initiating conflict later than
DD, 00:00 minus 24 Hrs?" Made additional changes to conflict
resolution NPAC
CANCELLATION PROCESS FLOW discussion.
Indicate 9 hours for each decision diamond for timing.
Show (C) from conflict chart to WHERE on Cancellation chart'
(C) should go to two boxes "Old service provider cancels
all orders & sends cancellation to NPAC." & box
"New Service provider sends notification of cancellation
to NPAC."
Add "if appropriate" to" Old Service Providers
cancels all orders & if appropriate, sends cancellation to
NPAC." box. Attach a note to the "if appropriate".
Add "if appropriate" to both boxes that bubble (C) points
to.
Add "via LSR/FOC" to box "Old Service provider
sends notification to New Service Provider"
Add bubble (X) as output from page one of one of PROCESS FLOW
CHART CANCELLATION replacing bubble (B). Add bubble (X) as an
input to CONFLICT RESOLUTION FLOW CHART replacing bubble (B)
input.
Add note: 1.) CANCELLATION REQUEST IS SUPPORTED ONLY IF SP HAS PREVIOUSLY UPLOADED INTO NPAC, OTHERWISE REJECTED. TO THE CANCELLATION PROCESS MAP.
ADD NOTE #1 TO BOXES OLD & NEW SERVICE PROVIDER BOXES. WHERE
"IF APPROPRIATE" WAS ADDED.
Add note: 2.) NPAC TESTS FOR CANCEL PENDING RESOLUTION ACKNOWLEDGMENT
BASED ON WHICH SPs PREVIOUSLY UPLOADED INTO NPAC. TO THE CANCELLATION
PROCESS MAP DECISION FOR DIAMOND "DID NPAC RECEIVE NOTIFICATION(S)
IN DESIGNATED TIME?" ADD NOTE #2.
On CANCELLATION ORDER PROCESS FLOW change request form to ASR.
Remove decision diamond on CANCELLATION PROCESS FLOW "Is
response positive?"
Remove "cancels all orders &" from box "Old
Service Provider cancels all orders & sends cancellation to
NPAC.
10 digit trigger discussion. #1. Do all vendors supply in functionally the same manner?
#2. Release date & implementation date?
#3 DMS10 issue?
Each company will contact their vendor to obtain specific information i.e. 5ess what recent change page(s) and fields need to be filled and what the translations guide gives as documentation.
Nortel needs to supply what servord tuples are data filled and tables requiring translations LRN Tables.
Barry will contact NORTEL and Lucent. Jim Joerger will contact
Erricson to attend the next meeting with details of translations.
LNP MEETING 1/7/97 DAY TWO
Barry updated process flow charts for review.
Reinstalled "optional" to "Old and New Service Providers notify NPAC of change request after Old"
of PROVISION SERVICE PROCESS FLOW.
Remove timing note at the bottom of the page for the CANCELLATION PROCESS FLOW.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROCESS FLOW
Added by old SP to "First time into conflict?" decision
diamond.
Phil of TCG gave a report of the events that occurred at the NANC
meeting on 1/6/97. Basically, no decision of interim solution
for provisioning was agreed to. The only new issue was porting
vacant numbers.
Review of PROCESS FLOWS FOR OPENING NPA/NXX FOR PORTING IN AN
LNP ENVIRONMENT by Phil of TCG.
MCI questioned the use of the word "feasible" in the second paragraph of the box 1 explanation.
Phil and Jim will work off line to revise verbiage of the second
paragraph.
Discussion about the quanity of NPA/NXXs that will be rolled out
initially. If every code is opened, there may be Engineering
issues of network capacity.
Discussion about "information should be treated as proprietary"
on page two explanation of box 1. This may not be for the Operations
Committee to determine as a legal issue.
Discussion about an office requested to be opened with none or
a few customers ported. Barry suggested that this may be a cost
recovery issue that the requesting company should bear the cost
of the old service provider's expense.
NEW VERBIAGE FOR BOX 1 EXPLANATION by Phil and Jim.
Within 5 business days of receipt, the originator of the request
shall receive a written response that the request was received
and will be placed into the next update of the LERG.----to replace
the second paragraph on page one.
No mention of whether the request is accurate or if the switch is LNP capable that has the NPA/NXX.
Request should be valid and for offices that are LNP capable. Add verbiage "If the recipient does not own the requested NPA/NXX or if the switch is not LNP capable, this information will be included in the response.
A alternative verbiage was proposed by Karen to replace the first two paragraphs.
Clarification of the asterisk sentence was discussed. Within
45 days of what? GTT completed -45 + 5.
Requests to open NPA/NXX reflect market forecasts of Service Provider. As such the request for code openings shall be treated as proprietary marketing information. Was proposed as a replacement for:
IT IS EXPECTED THAT INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE LETTER BE USED
ONLY FOR UPDATING NETWORK INFORMATION was agreed to.
Discussion of the vehicle for a trigger to activate GTT -- either the LERG or the NPAC notification.
Add to box 3 "This is the start for beginning the GTT translations.
Discussion about which GTT will be programmed -- LNP and other
services suchas CLASS, LIDB, Voice Mail. Jim will write up verbiage.
Box 7 NPAC upon receipt of matched porting requests DISCUSSION
Phil to modify verbiage for Box 7 and have to Barry by end of
week.
A conference call was scheduled for two hours on 2/3/97. 10:00am
EST (312) 814-8097 to review Phil's revisions. (this call will
also be used to make sure everyone concurs to the changes which
have been made to the documents which reflect the agreements for
the "Interim" proposal. A complete set of the drawings
will be forwarded (under separate cover) following this
document for your review. If there are any obvious errors or
mis-representations on the drawings (it is getting hard to keep
all the changes straight), please contact me immediately so I
can correct them and send them to the participants prior to the
conference call.
Also for those participants who have provided verbiage which
will go in the document to support the drawings, please verify
that the verbiage correctly reflects the changes. I would appreciate
it if everyone after checking their verbiage would send me an
electronic copy of their verbiage so it can be compiled and forwarded
to the team. If possible please send it in a Msword format attachment
to an E-mail or E-mail text to barry.bishop@ported.com or via
3.5 floppy to :
Barry Bishop
Ameritech
Flr 15NW
311 W. Washington
Chicago Illinois
60606
If unable to provide the info in this format, please give me
a call (312-220-8000) and I am sure we can work something out.
If we should have time on this call, I would like to cover as
much as possible.
Thanks
Barry Bishop
ICC Operations Chairperson