CONTENTS

 1     Scope
        1.1     Purpose
        1.2     Application
        1.3     Recommendation Roadmap
        1.4     Recommendation Conventions
        1.5     Compiling the IDL
 2     References
 3     Definitions and abbreviations
        3.1     Definitions from ITU‑T X.701
        3.2     Definitions from ITU‑T X.703
        3.3     Additional definitions
        3.4     Abbreviations
 4     CORBA-based TMN services goals and requirements
        4.1     Goals
                  4.1.1     Application interoperability
                  4.1.2     Common usage of CORBA Common Object Services
                  4.1.3     Information model transparency
        4.2     Information modeling dependencies
                  4.2.1     Access granularity
                  4.2.2     Representation of containment and naming
                  4.2.3     Object creation and deletion
        4.3     Scoping and filtering
                  4.3.1     Scoping
                  4.3.2     Filtering
        4.4     Notifications
 5     Framework overview and protocol requirements
        5.1     Framework overview
        5.2     Framework protocol requirements
 6     Framework common object services requirements
        6.1     The Naming Service
                  6.1.1     Translating managed object names to strings
        6.2     Notification Service
        6.3     Telecom Log Service
        6.4     Messaging Service
        6.5     Security Service
        6.6     Transaction Service
 7     Framework support services
        7.1     The Factory Finder Service
        7.2     The Channel Finder Service
                  7.2.1     Channel Finder interface
                  7.2.2     Channel Finder requirements
        7.3     The Terminator Service
        7.4     The Multiple-Object Operation Service
                  7.4.1     The MOO Service interface
                  7.4.2     The default filter language
                  7.4.3     MOO Service requirements
        7.5     The Heartbeat Service
        7.6     Other support services
 8     Compliance and conformance
        8.1     System conformance
                  8.1.1     Conformance points
                  8.1.2     Basic conformance profile
        8.2     Conformance statement guidelines
ANNEX  A – Framework Support Services IDL
// Data Types and Structures
// Constants
// Exceptions
// Interfaces
// Factory Finder Interface
// Channel Finder Interface
// Heartbeat Service Interface
// Terminator Service Interface
// DeleteResultsIterator Interface
// GetResultsIterator Interface
// UpdateResultsIterator Interface
// BasicMooService Interface
// AdvancedMooService Interface
// Notifications Interface
ANNEX  B – The Constraint Language BNF
        B.1     The constraint language proper in terms of lexical tokens
        B.2     "BNF" for lexical tokens up to character set issues
        B.3     Character set issues
APPENDIX  I – Interworking scenarios between models using ITU framework and ADSL- /ATMF-compliant models
        I.1     Introduction
        I.2     Terminology
        I.3     Interworking scenarios
                  I.3.1     Grain-Neutral Server migrating to ITU Framework Server
                  I.3.2     Grain-neutral Client migrating to ITU Framework client
APPENDIX  II – Filtering native and translated structured events
APPENDIX  III – Bibliography