Table of Contents - G.7716 (11/2025) - Architecture of management and control operations

1	Scope
2	References
3	Definitions
	3.1	Terms defined elsewhere
	3.2	Terms defined in this Recommendation
4	Abbreviations and acronyms
5	Conventions
6	Overview of the lifecycle of MC operations
7	Transport network planning
	7.1	Transport network resource planning
	7.2	MCS infrastructure
	7.3	CCN infrastructure
8	Transport network initialization
	8.1	Commissioning
	8.2	Reconfiguration during commissioning for MC component
	8.3	Resource assignment
	8.4	Discovery/authentication process
	8.5	Link configuration
	8.6	Routing initialization
	8.7	Provisioning
	8.8	Acceptance test
9	Transport network maintenance
	9.1	Reconfiguration
	9.2	Auditing
	9.3	Recovery
10	Transport network optimization
	10.1	Optimization trigger
	10.2	Optimization objective confirmation
	10.3	Data collection and analysis
	10.4	Solution generation
	10.5	Solution execution
Appendix I – Initialization example
Appendix II – Optimization example
Bibliography