(continuation of Q.12/4)

Motivation

While Study Group 2 is the lead study group for Telecommunication Management, some aspects of telecommunications management and OAM are being developed in other Study Groups. Telecommunication management and OAM activities include the management of telecommunication services, networks, and equipment, by means of generic and technology-specific principles, frameworks, (methodology), architectures, functional requirements, information models, and protocols for the specification of management and OAM interfaces between network elements, between network elements and management systems, and also between management systems.

A coordination and communication activity among the involved Study Groups and Questions is fundamental in order to facilitate the most efficient completion of the work. This activity includes the identification of development directions, missing work areas and those that are overlapping, or potentially so, between multiple Study Groups, Questions and Recommendations. It also includes encouraging the relevant work items in the most appropriate Questions, helping to define a suitable time schedule, and monitoring its development in a consistent way. This should allow a proper integration of the project information coming from telecommunications management and OAM projects, and eventually should ensure the mutual consistency of the standards prepared by the various ITU bodies, on this subject.

Question

Study items to be considered include, but are not limited to:

• What aspects of telecommunication management and OAM are under development or need to be assigned to what Study Groups or Questions for timely development?

Tasks

Tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Develop, maintain, and regularly distribute a project overview/work plan that documents the work and time schedules of all major new telecommunications management and OAM activities;
• Identification of development directions, missing work areas and those that are overlapping, or potentially so, between multiple Study Groups, Questions and Recommendations;
• Facilitate the relevant work items in the most appropriate ITU Questions and monitoring their development in a consistent way;
• Manage the responsibility associated with the Lead SG on Telecommunication Management;
• To fulfil the above tasks, cooperate as necessary with the JCA on Management.

Relationships

Recommendations: All Recommendations in any series related to telecommunications management and OAM.

Questions: All Questions working on telecommunications management and OAM issues in the SG below.

Study Groups: 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17

Standardization bodies: None