CONTENTS

 1     Introduction
        1.1     Scope
        1.2     References
        1.3     Abbreviations
        1.4     Definitions and conventions
                  1.4.1     Defined in other Recommendations
                  1.4.2     Defined in this amendment
 2     Business requirements
        2.1     High-level use cases
                  2.1.1     Fault Management
                  2.1.2     ARC
                  2.1.3     Configure ARC
                  2.1.4     Externally controlled ARC
                  2.1.5     Operability-controlled ARC
                  2.1.6     Timer-controlled ARC
                  2.1.7     Transition to reporting
        2.2     Business requirements list
        2.3     Reference trace for ARC impact on alarm notifications
 3     Analysis
        3.1     ARC state diagram
        3.2     ARC state requirements list
        3.3     ARC state table
        3.4     ARC object model
                  3.4.1     ARC class
                  3.4.2     ARC interval profile class
                  3.4.3     ARC retrieve alarm detail class
        3.5     ARC functional model description
        3.6     Alarm reporting parameters
        3.7     Relationship between ASAP, alarm status, and perceived severity
        3.8     ARC relationship to ITU-T Q.821
 4     Design
        4.1     CMIP/CMIS/CMISE
                  4.1.1     ARC management information model overview
                  4.1.2     ARC managed object class
                  4.1.3     ARC package
                  4.1.4     ARC retrieve alarm detail package
                  4.1.5     Example application
                  4.1.6     GDMO/ASN.1
                  4.1.7     Compliance
                  4.1.8     Conformance
        4.2     CORBA
Appendix I – Application scenarios
Appendix II – Additional considerations
       II.1     Business requirement considerations
       II.2     GDMO/ASN.1 Design considerations