January 2021

Committee Reports

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• INC: Industry Numbering Committee
  • Issue: 0896
  • Title: Update Section 5.4.3 to include the customer letter requirement for dedicated customer requests of the TBCOCAG to align with existing process and the text in 5.3.3
  • Statement: The text in Section 5.3.3 (Initial Pooled CO Codes for Dedicated Customer) requiring a customer letter is missing from Section 5.4.3 (Growth Pooled CO Codes for Dedicated Customer) even though existing process requires the customer letter on both Initial and Growth Pooled CO Code requests for Dedicated Customer. This issue recommends adding the missing text to TBCOCAG Section 5.4.3.
  • Resolution: INC agreed to update Section 5.4.3 of ATIS-0300119, Thousands-Block (NPA-NXX-X) & Central Office Code (NPA-NXX) Administration Guidelines (TBCOCAG), with the changes proposed in INC-2020-00095R000.
  • Status: Initial Closure

  For more information, visit the INC home page or contact .

• NRSC: Network Reliability Steering Committee
  • Issue: 0051
  • Title: Consider New NRSC-Generated Best Practices (BPs) for Submission to the Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC)
  • Statement: In 2020 and 2021, NRSC generated a number of Best Practices (BPs) from work on NRSC Issues 0045, 0049, and 0050. These BPs need to be evaluated for possible inclusion in the industry BP database by CSRIC. Edits to the BPs may be necessary to conform with the industry format of BPs.
  • Resolution:
  • Status: New Issue

  • Issue: 0049
  • Title: Review and Update ATIS-0100018, NRSC Pandemic Checklist, Version 2
  • Statement: NRSC determined the ATIS-0100018, NRSC Pandemic Checklist, Version 2, last updated in 2015, should be updated to reflect lessons learned from the industry and governmental response to the global impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Resolution: As the result of learnings from COVID-19, ATIS NRSC revised ATIS-0100018, NRSC Pandemic Checklist Version 2, by restructuring the document and adding additional best practices. NRSC will publish ATIS-0100018(2021-02), NRSC Pandemic Checklist, in February 2021.
  • Status: Initial Closure

  For more information, visit the NRSC home page or contact Mignot Asefa.

• OBF: Ordering and Billing Forum
  • Issue: 3655
  • Title: Access Serice Ordering Guidelines (ASOG): Modify Clarification/Notification Type (CNT) value to acknowledge Pre-Firm Order Confirmation (FOC) Jeopardy
  • Statement: There is a need to provide a jeopardy on the FOC critical date for the initial version of the ASR in addition to an error condition.
  • Resolution: Added CNT values of G and H to recognize delay of FOC critical date in addition to any error condition. Modified the SUPI, RCODE, and ERROR TAG fields to support the new values.
  • Status: Initial Closure

  For more information, visit the OBF home page or contact Drew Greco.

• PTSC: Packet Technologies and Systems Committee
  • Issue: 0160
  • Title: Develop Supplement for 678 V4
  • Statement: Several problems have been discovered during implementation of 678 V4: 1. In the ASN.1, the version number in the object IDs was not incremented. 2. An imported ASN.1 type has an incorrect case. This apparently occurred during 678 V3 work. 3. The SHAKEN addition to the NetworkSignal message does not describe what is placed in the Other parameter when the generalDisplay subparameter is not used. 4. The SHAKEN addition to the NetworkSignal message has a paragraph that should have been a bullet, leading to an incorrect interpretation of the next bullet point.
  • Resolution: These issues have been resolved with the publication of ATIS-1000678.v4.a.2021. PTSC LAES participants and ATIS staff also determined that correction of the "ConfPartyChange" to "ConferencePartyChange" did not constitute a substantive change, and that typo was corrected in this supplement.
  • Status: Final Closure

  For more information, visit the PTSC home page or contact Anna Karditzas.

• TMOC: Telecom Management and Operations Committee
  • Issue: 0234
  • Title: Revision of ATIS-0300251.2020, Structure for the Representation of Service Providers for Information Exchange
  • Statement: There is a need to add a new clause to ATIS-0300251.2020, Structure for the Representation of Service Providers for Information Exchange.
  • Resolution: Publication of ATIS-0300251.a.2020, ATIS Supplement A to ATIS-0300251.2020, Structure for the Representation of Service Providers for Information Exchange.
  • Status: Final Closure

  For more information, visit the TMOC home page or contact .

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Recently Approved ATIS Standards

INC

• Document Number: ATIS-0300119(2021-01)
• Title: Thousands-Block (NPA-NXX-X) & Central Office Code (NPA-NXX) Administration Guidelines (TBCOCAG)
• Type: Revision
• View Here

NGIIF

• Document Number: ATIS-0300106(2021-01)
• Title: Intercarrier Call Completion/Call Termination Handbook
• Type: Revision
• View Here