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Tuesday Aug 15, 1:00 – 5:00pm Bridge 215-440-7604

Attendance:

Name Company Name Company
Jim Grasser AT&T
Beth Watkins AT&T Jamie Sharpe Nextlink
Jerome Melson AT&T Dave Garner Qwest
Anne Cummins AT&T Wireless Charles Ryburn SBC
Chris Martin Bell Canada Jim Alton SBC
Ron Steen BellSouth Stephanie Swanson Sprint
Anna Miller BellSouth Cellular Brian Egbert Sprint PCS
Gabor Luka Broadband Office Colleen Collard Tekelec
Paul D. Fletcher Broadband Office John P. Malyar Telcordia
Dennis Robins (phone) Electric Lightwave Jean Anthony TSE
Matthew Leary ESI Sharon Bridges Verizon
Ron Stutheit Evolving Systems, Inc. Gary Sacra Verizon (Bell Atlantic)
Mike Panis Evolving Systems, Inc. Richard Bell Verizon (GTE)
Warren Potts (phone) GST Telecom Bob Angevine Verizon (GTE)
Maggie Lee Illuminet Pascale Lacroix Videotron Telecom
Rick Jones NENA Rich Lenox Williams
Gustavo Hannecke Neustar Lana Swalls Williams
Dave Heath Neustar Steve Addicks WorldCom
Rick Hansman Nextel wireless Molly Dorsey WorldCom

Notice Regarding September LNPA Meeting:

Hotel space is scarce in Washington in September, Charles suggests making reservations ASAP.

Notice Regarding November LNPA Meeting:

Gene Perez: November 6-9 LNPA meetings have been relocated to the Tradewinds Island Grand Facility. Rates are the same. If you have reservations they have been transferred to the Tradewinds. Tradewinds is right on the beach. Check it out at: www.tradewindsresort.com

Expect to receive notification from both the Don Cesar and Tradewinds informing you of the change. You will need to call the Tradewinds and give them your credit card info, but don’t call yet, Gene still needs to finalize some of the details of the contract negotiation.

Minutes Review:

The statement "Verizon’s operational experience in the Northeast region is that they are successfully using the OBF reseller process flows" in the July minutes was changed to read "experience in the Northeast and MidAtlantic regions."

Wireless Number Portability Subcommittee Readout: Anna Miller Reported:

Neustar will send its Newsletter to carriers on NECA list in order to encourage wireless carriers to notify NPAC about their testing needs. Committee is writing LLCs to add Saturday to NPAC's days of operation and extend its hours to 9 PM. (Currently NPAC operates Mon-Fri, 7AM-7PM Central; proposed is Mon-Sat, 7AM-9PM Central; this is a 40% increase in the NPAC's hours of operation.) Need to address wireless NP operational issues at National LNP Operations Team (NNPO). Expect to have wireless LNP test plan completed by end of August. Plan to give overview of test plan to LNPA-WG at its October meeting (and to get input there). Also plan to present test plan to NNPO. Have had discussions with NNPO on inter-carrier testing. The NNPO is going to create testing team for wireless-wireline LNP testing. Wireless subcommittee is going to try to get a wireless LNP testing committee established.

Slowhorse Readout: Steve Addicks Reported:

Reviewed NANC 219 M&P for LSMS availability reports

Discussed LSMS performance requirement. It was suggested we tie the LSMS requirement to the exhibit N requirements for NPAC performance.

Discussed SOA availability and began work on design of report for LLCs to request from Neustar. The report would provide information on NPAC/SOA traffic characteristics.

Cross Regional Meeting Readout:

Minutes are available on Neustar secure website.

Release 3.0 Testing Status:

Maggie Lee: Illuminet’s testing is running behind schedule due to lack of availability of the NPAC testbed. Illuminet is concerned that based on the current status, testing can not be completed by the November 3 due date. Illuminet does not have the resources to increase test support to 7x24 to attempt to catch up.

Dave Heath, Neustar: The problems have been due to the hardware not the software. We now have vendor support on site. Dave was leaving to go to Chicago. He agreed to call in on the bridge at 2:00 PM on Wednesday to provide a status report.

Beth: AT&T is experiencing the similar problems to Illuminet. AT&T’s associations have been aborted repeatedly at the NPAC end. ATT hasn’t made progress on testing because they can’t maintain association. AT&T is still working through regression testing and has not started testing new functionality. Beth complained about lack of communication from Neustar to the SP testers and gave examples that the database was corrupted Monday with still no message out Tuesday about the problem. Beth also pointed out that no testing has been possible for days, yet no sev 1 or sev 2 issues are identified to which delays can be related.

Several providers expressed concern that the test status reports do not accurately describe the status of the test. Currently the test status report is sent to the PE s. Neustar will begin sending that report to the test POCs at each SP.

John Malyar – When should we start revisiting the schedule for the Super Region testing? (Scheduled to start in 4 weeks, September 18) SPs mentioned that they do not have enough resources to support extended hours in the NE region and testing in the Super Region at the same time. It was also pointed out that any schedule made before the NPAC problems are fixed, will need to be changed again

PIM - 6:

Rick Jones’ proposed new language regarding PIM-6 was sent to the LNPA distribution. The new language states that carriers should complete the majority of their 911 unlocks and migrates within 24 hrs of NPAC activation. NENA will work on steps to improve this percentage going forward.

Dennis Robbins expressed concern that "the majority" allows 51% to meet the standard and is not an acceptable threshold. Dennis also expressed concern that LNPA is not doing enough to fix this problem. Several the SPs at LNPA expressed their opinion that NENA is the appropriate place to work this issue.

Ron Steen: BellSouth cannot support the new language as a recommendation to NANC. BellSouth thinks every record should be updated as quickly as possible, but thinks that NENA needs to work to improve the process for updating 911 records. BellSouth did not feel there was consensus at NENA.

Gary Sacra: Verizon is also opposed to the current language being forwarded from LNPA to NANC as a recommendation for a national standard.

Dave Garner: Qwest has serious concerns about Rick’s new language, and would like to propose additional changes. Qwest recommends eliminating the reference to 50%, changing the words 24 hrs of NPAC activation to on the day that porting activity occurs so that it matches the NENA standard, and adding a reference to the NENA committee that is working to improve the process.

Lisa Woodward WorldCom’s 911 representative agrees that 50% is not an adequate threshold.

Jackie Rigard, SBC thinks the words "greater than 50%" need to be stricken from the NENA / LNPA statement because 50% is not an adequate threshold. Jackie also thinks the group should focus on the paragraph that states that service providers need to work to improve their performance.

Paul Fletcher 911 database manager for Broadband Office said that the NENA process was designed to ensure reliability of 911 database. The process is designed with necessary safeguards.

Charles Ryburn: If this issue had been brought to LNPA by an SP, we would have referred it to NENA. If NENA needs a national standard, we would have expected them to take this directly to NANC. Why can’t NENA take this to NANC?

Brian Egbert: NANC is a public forum, NENA may take this issue directly to NANC.

Anna Miller mentioned that unlike LNPA, NANC does not need to reach a consensus to make a policy or policy recommendation.

Why does NENA need a NANC standard? Why isn’t a NENA standard adequate? Several parties replied: Because NENA has no enforcement power.

Brian Egbert – We have two options: (from the July LNPA minutes). The group agreed to vote on the path forward LNPA should take.

    1. Accept the language presented at the July meeting: "Unlocks and migrates are to be completed within 24 hours of NPAC activation" and forward that to NANC with our recommendation that it be made a national standard.
    2. Return the issue to NENA and ask them to work on a solution. Continue to track as a PIM at LNPA.

8/15/00 vote on how to handle PIM-6

AT&T – abstain GST - #2 Sprint - #2
Bell Canada – abstain Nextlink - #2 Verizon - #2
BellSouth - #2 Qwest - #2 WorldCom – abstain
ELI - #1 SBC - #2 Williams - abstain
Broadband Office - #2    

CONSENSUS: The LNPA will refer this issue back to NENA, and allow NENA to either take it directly to NANC, or to come up with improvements to the process.

PIM - 5:

Dave Heath: Neustar agrees that accidental porting can happen but with the two timers it shouldn’t happen. Neustar thinks that this violates their neutrality requirement. Neustar will only accept this if the all liability for using the process is placed on the SP requesting the unilateral port. Neustar also says this will require more off-hours support and hence will have a cost impact. Neustar will consider this only if it is requested by the LLCs.

Neustar does not suggest any change to the process itself.

Neustar will refer the issue to the LLC. Dave Heath will propose the SOW to the LLC in September.

PIM - 7:

Has been implemented. PIM will be closed.

PIM - 1:

Last meeting we agreed that we would send PIM-1 to OBF with a letter listing our concerns. Jim Grasser who is a member of OBF thinks it would be more appropriate for NNPO to forward this to OBF. The problem with the LNPA letter idea is it does not request any action. If we want OBF to address this we need to say: "We don’t agree with how this is being done, this is how we think you should do it."

Jim Grasser stated that the issue will need a champion at OBF to carry it forward. The issue champion needs to go to OBF in person. Since we can not agree on how we think this should be done, we are not in position to sponsor this at the OBF.

John Malyar asked if the reseller process needs to be integrated into the LNPA created flows. (Which were approved by NANC and are called the NANC flows.)

CONSENSUS: Charles Ryburn will draft letter to NNOP listing concerns and suggesting that NNPO take their proposal to the OBF. Steve Addicks asked that the letter make clear whose concerns are cited.

August 16, 8:30 – 5:00 Conf Bridge 215-440-7604

Attendance

Name Company Name Company
Jim Grasser AT&T
Beth Watkins AT&T Charles Ryburn SBC
Jerome Melson AT&T Jim Alton SBC
Anne Cummins AT&T Wireless Stephanie Swanson Sprint
Chris Martin Bell Canada Brian Egbert Sprint PCS
Ron Steen BellSouth Colleen Collard Tekelec
Anna Miller BellSouth Cellular John P. Malyar Telcordia Technologies
Gabor Luka Broadband Office Inc Jean Anthony TSE
Marian Hearn Canadian LNP Consortium Dave Garner Qwest
Dennis Robins (phone) Electric Lightwave Gary Sacra Verizon (Bell Atlantic)
Matthew Leary ESI Richard Bell Verizon (GTE)
Mike Panis Evolving Systems, Inc. Bob Angevine Verizon (GTE)
Jim Rooks Evolving Systems, Inc. Sharon Bridges Verizon
Ron Stutheit Evolving Systems, Inc. Pascale Lacroix Videotron Telecom
Maggie Lee ILLUMINET Rich Lenox Williams
Gustavo Hannecke Neustar Lana Swalls Williams
Rick Hansman Nextel wireless Steve Addicks WorldCom
Jamie Sharpe Nextlink Molly Dorsey WorldCom
Dave Heath (phone) Neustar Warren Potts GST Telecom

Review Release 3.0 Change Order Summary:

We reviewed the list of release 3.0 change orders sent out by Jean and made some minor modifications. Jean will redistribute the revised list.

NANC 249 from Release 4.0:

NANC 249 - Modify dates for a disconnect-pending SV. These changes were missed in the original change order. Jean will make the revision and pass it to Gustavo to take to Neustar.

New Change Orders:

NANC 304, 306, and 308 - These change orders involve documentation only and are part of Release 3.0.1.

NANC 313 - Uses term "UTC" where normally we use the term "GMT." Asked TSE to stick with GMT terminology in writing change order text.

NANC 314 – This will fix incorrect bulk download data examples in the appendix E sample file. The working group asked Jean to add footnotes to the example data in the field explanation table explaining that the DPC and SSN data are octets, and that SSNs should be set to zero. The working group accepted NANC 314 with these changes.

AI Jean – determine if the bulk data download files will contain wireless data even for those providers whose systems do not use the data.

NANC 315 – Document change that only 12 octets are used in a bind request. Jean will write up 315 and we will review it at the September meeting.

NANC 316 - Jean will create a new change order to modify ASN.1 to declare the field for the NSAP to be 12 octets and eliminate the need for NPAC to truncate the data.

NANC 219:

NANC 219 – LSMS Availability reports: We will add a requirement to the detailed log report to separate the data for LSMS and SOA into separate sections.

Requirement 15 – the data the report will be generated will be tunable, but the period the report covers will be a calendar month, and not changeable.

Requirement 16 – tunable parameter for day of month to generate reports. We have one tunable for both the individual and regional reports.

Requirement 19 was struck as redundant. (It defined data elements that were also defined in the calculation section.)

Requirement 20, the individual LSMS availability report will not include SOA data.

Deleted requirements 23-26

Requirement 27 – changed title to "Calculation of Total Minutes In A Month."

Requirement 28 – Discussed how to back out the industry agreed maintenance windows from the calculations.

Colleen & Jim Rooks – the algorithm needs not just the number of minutes of a maintenance window per month, but the start and end date & time for each window. (The algorithm requires the date & times so the minutes an LSMS is available during the maintenance window can be excluded from the availability.)

The inputs for these reports must be done by region, because the maintenance windows may vary by region.

The calculation needs to be correctable, so a report can be regenerated with new maintenance window. (or other corrections)

There are two types of down time that will be excluded from the LSMS availability calculation. This down time must be entered as intervals of start time and end time.

Requirement 29 – changed title to: "Calculation of Maximum Minutes Available For Porting In a Month".

Requirement 33 - The periods of NPAC unavailability outside the industry agreed to windows will be subtracted from the base porting availability time for the Adjusted Percentage.

We will add the capability to take out periods of NPAC unavailable time from just a single or specific lists of service providers. (To account for times when a single SP is down due to an SP specific NPAC problem.)

Requirement 40 – We changed the requirement for the history in the report from 18 months to a tunable.

Added a requirement that the appeal data be entered in the report and maintained for the period of the tunable parameter defined previously for the availability data.

If the period of the tunable parameter is increased, none of the previously deleted data needs to be recovered, rather the transition can occur over a period of time in the same manner that the 18 month history will be built when the report starts.

The report will be automatically generated as a comma delimited file that can be opened by Excel and have the following format

   

Month 1

   

Month 2

   

Month 3

 
SPID

Raw

Adjust

Appeal

Raw

Adjust

Appeal

Raw

Adjust

Appeal

AT&T

55%

   

55%

   

55%

   
   

69%

   

69%

   

69%

 
     

100%

   

100%

   

100%

B ell X . . . etc

55%

   

55%

   

55%

   
   

69%

   

69%

   

69%

 
     

100%

   

100%

   

100%

NANC 219, Miscellaneous Requirements Discussions:

The LSMS available time starts at the time of an LSMSs bind request, not at the time the LSMS completes re-synching.

There was extensive discussion of how the LSMS time is accounted for after they have aborted and before they successfully rebind. AGREEMENT: The time between an abort and a bind request is considered down time.

The adjusted time for NPAC availability for porting is calculated by subtracting the periods the NPAC is unavailable outside the industry agreed to down time.

TSC will make the necessary revisions to the change order, review it with Neustar, and distribute it to the LNPA-WG participants by noon August 30th. A conference call will be held to review the revised NANC 219 change order on August 31st at 3:00 PM Eastern. The M&P associated with the change order will be revised and be available for discussion at the September LNPA-WG meeting.

[After Wednesday's discussion, Gustavo Hannecke discussed internally with Neustar the process required to implement the revised change order text. David Heath explained that as a matter of contract it would be necessary for the revised change order to be submitted to Neustar by the LLCs. That is, Neustar views the revisions to Change Order 219 as so significant that it must be treated as "new" rather than "corrected." Steve Addicks will bring this up at the West Coast LLC meeting August 17th and the NAPM LLC meeting the following week. It will be necessary for the LNPA-WG to submit the modified Change Order NANC 219 to the LLCs.]

Release 3.0 Testing Status Update (Dave Heath, Neustar):

Neustar will implement the following testing process changes to improve test communication:

Beth and John Malyar asked that defects be assigned tracking numbers. Dave agreed to investigate the possibility of implementing this. He also agreed to provide some sort of reference number about problems which are announced for future references if trouble ticket not appropriate.

Dave Heath: Past problems have not been related to the application functionality they have been due to a hardware platform crash and data corruption problems. Several LNPA members responded: Based on the current testing we can not be sure the database corruption issue was not caused by the functionality changes. Several people commented that we are essentially at ground zero; the little bit of testing done may be lost.

September 4th – Neustar will decide whether to run the Super Region testing on a separate NPAC test system, or whether to share the hardware.

Dave Heath: The system came up at 4:00 am this morning, but it is down now. (2:20 pm 8/16)

Thursday August 17, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm

8:30 -12:00 Wireless Wireline 3rd Report Review Draft.

The LNPA WG reviewed the Wireless Wireline Integration Report through section 3.3.1. Anne Cummins captured the changes and the revised document will be distributed to the LNPA distribution for review. There will be a conference call on Monday, August 28th at 10:00 am CDT to complete the review.

Agenda for Next Meeting: Sept. 11 – 14, Washington Marriott, Washington, DC – Neustar Host

Action Item: Participants need to be prepared to volunteer to host meetings in 2001 at the Sept meeting

Because of the extensive changes to NANC 219 we need to review revised M&P for NANC 219.

Number Pooling Issue – In the EDR migration process that Donna published, it says the previous week moratorium will not allow you to change or modify information. We need to add emergency procedures to correct service affecting problems.

Add an agenda item to review NPAC 3.0 testing status and rollout schedule.

New Business:

Beth Watkins – New Business: Carriers have opened NPA 606 (Kentucky) in both the Southeast Region and the Midwest Region. 606 is clearly entirely within the SE region.

AT&T has called the Neustar USAs who have told AT&T that companies are allowed to open an NXX in two regions.

Gustavo, the NPAC software can not prevent this, but the M&P should. Gustavo will take this issue to the Cross-Regional meeting.

Steve Addicks commented: NPAC boundaries may not match state boundaries as a result of Cincinnati Bell’s action.


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