On Bridge:
David Heath LM
Dave Cowgill TTI
Dave Cochran Bell South
Ron Stutheit ESI
Jackie Klare Pacific Bell

Approve minutes of previous meeting.

Changes were made to the minutes. They will be redistributed and posted on the website.

• Feedback from previous NANC Meeting (Anna, Charles, Shelly)

Anna’s report went well. No action items resulted. There was discussion regarding the PIM letter which led to changes in its format and distribution list. 2.0 issues were presented without comment.

• Subcommittee Reports (Brief status reports.)
• Wireless Number Portability (Anna Miller)

• Slow Horse (Steve Addicks)

• Number Pooling (Donna Navickas)

• PIM (Fixed Start 2:00pm)

The SW/WC/W region operations team that brought this issue to the WG is working on proposed changes to the flows for WG approval. Once they are complete, they will be submitted to the WG for review.

Shelly Shaw (Nextlink) submitted a proposed unavailability requirement to address the service provider maintenance window. That document will be attached to the minutes. The WG discussed the proposal and suggested changes to the document. Shelly will take the suggestions and resubmit the proposal at the next meeting.

• NANC Website

The NANC site has been updated with a link to www.npac.com LNPA WG page.

• Backwards Compatibility Issue

• Pure Backward Compatibility - this implies that interface specification has not been modified and therefore, no recompile is necessary. Also, no behaviors on the NPAC SMS have been modified to provide any change to the previously existing functionality accessible over the interface.

• Functional Backward Compatibility - this implies that the interface may have been modified, however the changes are such that only a recompile is necessary to remain backward compatible. Any new functionality is optionally implemented by accessing the newly defined features over the interface. Also, no changes may be made to any existing interface functionality that will require modifications to SOA and/or LSMS platforms.

It was suggested that subsequent releases of a major release (e.g., 2.0, 2.1, 2.1.1, etc.) must support Pure Backward Compatibility. Also, major releases should support at least one version of Functional Backward Compatibility, i.e, R3.0 should be Functional Backward Compatible to R2.0. It is suggested that the objective should be that all releases remain Functional Backward Compatible, if possible.

After much discussion, it was decided that the following footnote needed to be added to the above definition to provide clarification.

On Bridge
David Heath LM
Dave Cowgill TTI
Clayton Tong ESI Local
Mark Piaget MCIWorldcom

• Change Order Review (Fixed Start 8:30 am - John Nakamura)

The change order review was handled by John Nakamura and Lisa Marie Maxon. Please refer to John’s document for details.

This discussion was handled by John Nakamura and Lisa Marie Maxon. Please refer to their document for details.

During the meeting, the change orders were distributed among the WG for development of Business Needs. Each Service Provider was to bring the business need for the change order/s assigned to them to Thursdays session. At that time, the business needs were reviewed by the entire group.

On Bridge
Beth Watkins
Ron Stutheit

• Change Order Prioritization/Business Needs

The remaining change orders were reviewed. The business needs that had been developed by the attending service providers were reviewed and discussed. The business needs document will be attached to the minutes. During discussion of the business needs, questions arose around two change orders 294 and 187. A conference call was scheduled for Friday the 22^nd at 9:00 Central for further discussion.

• NPAC SMS Release Status (Rel 2.0, Rel 3.0, Rel 4.0)

There is one outstanding defect on release 2.0. There is a fix and a workaround. The fix will be put in place on October 31. Marcel gave a presentation on the proposed timeline for release 4.0. He reviewed major milestones and expectations for the next few months. There was considerable discussion of the deliverables regarding test cases and test case development. This resulted in some changes to the project plan. Marcel will take these back and provide updates prior to the next meeting. There is the possibility of extending the WG meeting in December for test case review. A conference call was set up for November 22 from 2:00 to 5:00 eastern. Call in number 877-815-3003, pass code 2108864713#.

• Next Year’s Meeting Schedule

The meeting schedule was reviewed again. The July meeting was moved to Boston and will be hosted by Bell Atlantic.

• Review Status of any un-addressed ACTION ITEMS from the previous meeting.

There were no un-addressed action items.

• LNPA WG Issue Matrix Update (for NANC) (Integrated matrix)

Charles and Shelly will update the matrix.

• New Business

Service provider maintenance window was brought up for discussion. This related directly to PIM issue 0002. Discussion was postponed until next meeting when it will be addressed under PIM.

• Review key points to report to NANC (Charles, Shelly)

The report to NANC will contain information regarding the two PIM issues, work effort on 4.0 and the slow horse update.