Corrected the third paragraph following the heading "Review of Wireless LNP Test Plan". Deleted first sentence: "Wireless to wireless implementation will be facilitated by a subcommittee of the NNPO". Corrected third sentence to: "Wireless to wireless testing will be facilitated by a subcommittee of the wireless operations team . . . ".

The slowhorse minutes are distributed separately.

The problem description as written was difficult to interpret. One of the LNPA chairpersons contacted the author and was able to explain how to resolve her problem with existing LNP information resources and processes. She was referred to the ATIS website for the inter-carrier network trouble Carrier to Carrier Contact List. The author of the PIM did not call-in to, nor attend the November LNPA meeting. Based on the author’s discussion with the LNPA co-chair, this PIM will be closed. The LNPA agreed there is no need for additional documentation to track the owners of JIPs.

Background Info:

LNPA consensus was that the LATA information for the LRN & TN in the NPAC should come from the LERG, rather than the service provider. This has two advantages, the LERG is a more reliable source and adding a function for SPs to enter the information in the NPAC would require a change to NPAC/SOA interfaces. If an SV with an NPA-NXX that is not in the LERG is submitted, the NPAC will reject the SV.

Submitted by ESI. A description of the business need read at the November meeting will be distributed separately from the minutes. This change order was proposed to address a potential problem that will cause messages to be dropped when local systems are in congestion. The concern is that if a local system is in congestion at the time NPAC sends a message, the local system will never receive the message because the 1x15 timer provides no opportunity for messages to be resent.

The change request and a description of how the NPAC responds to congestion will be distributed separately from the minutes.

SPs are requested to consider this issue internally and be prepared to discuss the following two aspects at the December LNPA meeting:

Discussion of a change to the retry timer will be a separate topic on the December LNPA agenda from change orders.

We agreed that the only way to address the underlying business issues for which this change order was proposed is to identify them individually and address them separately. It was stated that there is no practical way for NPAC to store data in anything but GMT. The NPAC runs on UNIX and UNIX uses GMT. As the originator of the change request, AT&T proposed withdrawing it. There were no objections, so this change order was moved to delete pending.

We changed the second sentence in the Business Need from: "It is not possible for the NPAC to directly audit the SPs’ network routing data." to "Since it is not possible for the NPAC to directly audit the service providers’ network routing data in network elements, the NPAC audits service providers’ LSMSs." This change was made because there was confusion over whether "network routing data" refers to an SP’s LSMS database or their network routing databases (i.e. STPs or ISCPs).

The last sentence in the paragraph will also be modified.

This change request adds a requirement for a detailed report to the LLC that lists discrepancies by service provider SPID and a more detailed report available to LSMS owners by request. Additionally, it modifies the audit process used to generate the report to be a corrective audit.

The current audit functionality randomly selects a range of 1000 consecutive TNs and audits the LSMSs of all connected SPs. Many of the LNPA-WG members previously thought that 1000 randomly selected ported TNs would be audited.

ESI indicated that NPAC impact of low should be removed until the new requirements are analyzed.

The following decisions were either made or reaffirmed:

A revised wireless demand forecast was distributed to the LNPA distribution electronically early on Nov 9. The WNPSC’s forecast only includes wireless to wireless porting, not wireline/wireless. The LNPA working group discussed the need to add Wireline/Wireless porting to the total forecast. The LNPA agreed that the wireline/wireline forecast is their responsibility. It was suggested that the busy hours for wireline to wireless porting will be the same as for wireless to wireless porting, and that volume forecast can not be based on wireless companies’ marketing plans. The busy hour for wireless to wireline porting was not discussed.

In the WNPSC’s forecast, the "porting percentage" on line 7 is the percentage of wireless customers who keep their phone numbers when they change service providers.

NOTE: FOLLOWING ARE TENTATIVE DATES, SUBJECT TO LLC APPROVAL

Dianne Black of Neustar presented the following new proposed dates for release 3.0. The LNPA suggested the revisions in the right column.

NOTE: THESE DATES ARE TENTATIVE DATES, SUBJECT TO LLC APPROVAL.

One service provider objected to scheduling Disaster Testing on 12/18-22 during their end of year quiet period. This company anticipates resource constraints during that period. Multiple providers mentioned they have resource constraints at the end of the year.

The group stated that this new schedule eliminates the four-week soak that was planned between the first region and the second region. There is a one-week moratorium on pooling after the first region. The LNPA requested a second week of soak to observe pooling in production prior to turning up the next region. One service provided suggested a three-week soak would be a better schedule.

3.0 Testing Status: Group testing started this week. Fourteen service providers are participating. Group testing for the super region will start next week.