R&B Minutes 6/13/97

- ICC LNP R&B Meeting Minutes
  - - To: ICC LNP Workshop Rating and Billing Members
      From: Judith Evans
      
      Date: June 13, 1997
      
      Re: Minutes for the June 13, 1997 R&B teleconference
  A teleconference of the ICC LNP R&B committee was held on June 13 to discuss . Following is the status of each of the items discussed on the teleconference..
  
  National R&B Committee
  
  Each member of the Rating and Billing sub-committee has been asked to attend meeting/teleconferences of the National Billing Committee and participate in the evaluation process of this new committee. This item is currently pending as individual service providers evaluate the direction of the National Billing Committee versus the ICC R&B Sub-committee.
  
  Please contact Marie Dunn, Pacific Bell, on (510) 823-7580 to become a member of the National Billing Committee and receive their agendas and meeting notifications. The next meeting of this group will be a face-to-face meeting in San Ramon, CA, June 17-19, 1997. A teleconference bridge will be provided on (888) 422-7105/Participant Code: 226-681.
  
  California "Delta" Document
  
  The attending service provider members of this teleconference have determined that none of the items on the California R&B sub-committee’s "Delta" document should be considered jeopardy items for Phase I implementation of LNP in Illinois. The attending switch vendors noted that they are working privately with their California customers to provide them with subsequent point releases/switch updates that will incorporate software fixes for the issues identified in California.
  
  Attending R&B members agree with the assessment by the California R&B sub-committee that outstanding issues exist that have long-term impact on R&B in an LNP environment. Many of these issues have already been identified in the "future" requirements section of the Illinois Switching and Signaling Generic Requirements, Section 4.5. This sub-committee will again review the California "Delta" document for possible inclusion into our Phase II requirements as soon as the scope of that effort has been determined by the Illinois Steering Committee.
  
  General Requirements Clarification - Items 1315 & 1320
  
  Joe Lichter and Arnette Schultz, Lucent Technologies, have edited the Switching and Signaling Generic Requirements 1315 and 1320. These edits are simply a matter of clarification based on a discussion with the Ericcson development members. All R&B members should receive a fax copy of the edited requirements from Joe and/or Arnette. If you have not received a copy of the requirements, please contact Arnette on (630) 713-7437. Please pay careful attention to the dates by which comments should be returned to Lucent regarding the proposed clarification edits. In the event negative comments are received by Lucent, these will be discussed on the next R&B teleconference.
  
  NXX-X/LRN Number Conservation
  
  Brian Baldwin, chairperson of the NXX-X - LRN assessment team, made a request of all technical sub-committees asking that we assess the potential technical impact of this number conservation solution. Attending members of the R&B team have determined in a preliminary analysis that this solution should have no technical impact on deploying the LRN solution in Illinois based on the attached assumption set (Attachment I). However, the R&B committee reserves the right to make a final analysis of this methodology should it become the selected solution. In the event it becomes necessary to make a final analysis of this method, sub-committee members should be prepared to identify any R&B issues that are associated with this solution during the July teleconference.
  
  Please note that R&B service provider members not in attendance (GTE, TCG, Time-Warner, and Worldcom-MFS) were called and asked to provide negative comments related to the above proposed response no later than close of business Wednesday, June 18, 1997.
  
  Next Meeting Information
  
  The R&B committee has scheduled a teleconference on Tuesday, July 15, 1997, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 (CST) to discuss agenda issues. The dial-in number is: (???) ???-????. The participant code is: ???-???.
  
  Agenda for July Teleconference

1315 & 1320 Requirements Edits (if necessary)	Arnette Schultz
NXX-X/LRN Number Conservation (if necessary)	Brent Struthers
National Billing Committee Proposal	Ray Nelson
Next Meeting Date	All

- June Teleconference Attendees:
  Tom Santos - Pacific Bell/California LNP Workshop & National Billing Committee Chair
  
  Raj Udeshi - Siemens, Stromberg-Carlsson
  
  Jim Joerger - MCI
  
  Mary Riley - Ameritech
  
  Armen Basmajian - AT&T
  
  Pat Carstensen - Nortel
  
  Chris Tappenden - Nortel
  
  Thevi ??? -Nortel
  
  Steve Lohr - Sprint
  
  ??Fozi Zaizi - Nortel
  
  Arnette Schultz - Lucent Technologies
  
  Charlie Boyd - Bellcore
  
  Joe Murphy - Cellular One
  
  Brent Struthers - ICC Staff
  
  Judy Evans - AT&T/ICC LNP Workshop R&B Chair
  
  Attachment 1 - Preliminary Analysis Number Pooling Assumptions
  
  Per Brian Baldwin’s 6/3/97 memo:

1. Sharing will be implemented at the thousands-block level, among carriers serving the same rate center or rate district as assigned the particular NXX.
2. Shared NXXs will still be assigned to a "home" switch and rate center/district.
3. Thousands blocks within those NXXs that are shared with other carriers will be "ported" from the donor switch, using the long-term LNP architecture.

- The ICC Rating and Billing sub-committee does not anticipate any rating or billing issues with the NXX-X pooling proposal given the following clarifications:

1. Geographic boundaries of rate center/rate district are iron-clad, no exceptions.
2. Generation of the AMA (LRN) by the switch does not deviate from the long-term LNP architecture.