1、 International Telecommunication Union ITU-T M.1403TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION SECTOR OF ITU (08/2007) SERIES M: TELECOMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT, INCLUDING TMN AND NETWORK MAINTENANCE Designations and information exchange Formalization of generic orders ITU-T Recommendation M.1403 ITU-T M-SERIES
2、RECOMMENDATIONS TELECOMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT, INCLUDING TMN AND NETWORK MAINTENANCE Introduction and general principles of maintenance and maintenance organization M.10M.299 International transmission systems M.300M.559 International telephone circuits M.560M.759 Common channel signalling systems M.
3、760M.799 International telegraph systems and phototelegraph transmission M.800M.899 International leased group and supergroup links M.900M.999 International leased circuits M.1000M.1099 Mobile telecommunication systems and services M.1100M.1199 International public telephone network M.1200M.1299 Int
4、ernational data transmission systems M.1300M.1399 Designations and information exchange M.1400M.1999 International transport network M.2000M.2999 Telecommunications management network M.3000M.3599 Integrated services digital networks M.3600M.3999 Common channel signalling systems M.4000M.4999 For fu
5、rther details, please refer to the list of ITU-T Recommendations. ITU-T Rec. M.1403 (08/2007) i ITU-T Recommendation M.1403 Formalization of generic orders Summary ITU-T Recommendation M.1403 defines orders and additional information intended primarily for human-to-human communication between variou
6、s operators, i.e., network operators or service providers. The orders contain data for designations of interconnections and other information about services and network resources that are required to be communicated between operators. This Recommendation provides a skeleton that can be extended with
7、 any contents and allow for any use of the orders. This Recommendation is developed in order to facilitate computerized interoperation between telecommunication operators. As the data defined in this Recommendation are designed for human usage, they are independent of the functions in which they are
8、 used. Hence, the data may be applied in any functions, e.g., in customer requests, call centres, billing, service platforms, etc. Source ITU-T Recommendation M.1403 was approved on 6 August 2007 by ITU-T Study Group 4 (2005-2008) under the ITU-T Recommendation A.8 procedure. Keywords Data definitio
9、ns, designations, domestic, interconnection, international, messages, operator, orders, terminology, X interface. ii ITU-T Rec. M.1403 (08/2007) FOREWORD The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency in the field of telecommunications, information and commu
10、nication technologies (ICTs). The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is a permanent organ of ITU. ITU-T is responsible for studying technical, operating and tariff questions and issuing Recommendations on them with a view to standardizing telecommunications on a worldwide basis. Th
11、e World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which meets every four years, establishes the topics for study by the ITU-T study groups which, in turn, produce Recommendations on these topics. The approval of ITU-T Recommendations is covered by the procedure laid down in WTSA Resolution
12、1. In some areas of information technology which fall within ITU-Ts purview, the necessary standards are prepared on a collaborative basis with ISO and IEC. NOTE In this Recommendation, the expression “Administration“ is used for conciseness to indicate both a telecommunication administration and a
13、recognized operating agency. Compliance with this Recommendation is voluntary. However, the Recommendation may contain certain mandatory provisions (to ensure e.g. interoperability or applicability) and compliance with the Recommendation is achieved when all of these mandatory provisions are met. Th
14、e words “shall“ or some other obligatory language such as “must“ and the negative equivalents are used to express requirements. The use of such words does not suggest that compliance with the Recommendation is required of any party. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ITU draws attention to the possibility
15、 that the practice or implementation of this Recommendation may involve the use of a claimed Intellectual Property Right. ITU takes no position concerning the evidence, validity or applicability of claimed Intellectual Property Rights, whether asserted by ITU members or others outside of the Recomme
16、ndation development process. As of the date of approval of this Recommendation, ITU had not received notice of intellectual property, protected by patents, which may be required to implement this Recommendation. However, implementers are cautioned that this may not represent the latest information a
17、nd are therefore strongly urged to consult the TSB patent database at http:/www.itu.int/ITU-T/ipr/. ITU 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written permission of ITU. ITU-T Rec. M.1403 (08/2007) iii CONTENTS Page 1 Scope
18、 1 2 Normative references 1 3 Definitions 1 4 Abbreviations 1 5 Conventions 2 6 External terminology schema . 3 Appendix I Theory of orders. 6 I.1 Introduction 6 I.2 Statements in messages 6 Appendix II Simplifications relative to Ogdens triangle . 8 II.1 Introduction 8 II.2 Denotations from message
19、s 8 Appendix III Harmonization issues 9 iv ITU-T Rec. M.1403 (08/2007) Introduction This Recommendation defines order designations and additional information intended primarily for human-to-human communication between various operators, i.e., network operators or service providers within the context
20、 of an external terminology schema in end user terminology. This Recommendation on generic orders provides common terms for any order, e.g., network orders and service orders. The area of interest is the communication of orders between operators about network interconnections and telecommunication s
21、ervices. The objects of communication are telecommunication services and network resources. This Recommendation focuses on human needs for stable and recognizable data formats independently of the media they are communicated over. Therefore, in order to support the human-to-human communication, the
22、formats defined in this Recommendation are required to be provided at the corresponding human-to-computer interfaces, as well. Hence, this Recommendation defines the formats of data at human-to-computer interfaces, but does not define the data communication formats for interfaces between computer sy
23、stems, such as at the TMN X interface or non-TMN computer interfaces. However, it must be possible to automatically map the human-to-computer formats to the computer-to-computer formats and vice versa. The details of this mapping are for further study. Use of this Recommendation inside national juri
24、sdictions will be the result of bilateral negotiation between the operators and/or national regulatory activity. Although compliance with all ITU-T Recommendations is voluntary, special mention is made for ITU-T Rec. M.1403 due to the sensitivity of designations for interconnection from a regulatory
25、 and legal standpoint. This extension greatly increases the number of routes and nodes to be identified, and in this way extends the name spaces to be provided. This Recommendation defines orders and additional information to be exchanged between two operators. While it defines order and message ide
26、ntification, it does not define data on the status or processing of these orders or messages. In that regard, this Recommendation can be considered as an adaptation or extension of ICT industry standards, e.g., OASIS UBL. ICT industry standards for such data may impose additional requirements on hum
27、an-to-computer interfaces. The definition of information is common for the functions it supports. This Recommendation aims at supporting communication among service providers and network operators, but may also support communication between brokers, retailers, customers and installation providers. T
28、his Recommendation aims at defining designations of orders and additional information for service personnel, technicians and file support personnel at their terminals supporting the services and network, and serves as design information for developers of operational support systems. In addition to t
29、he definition of orders and messages in the main body of this Recommendation, Appendix I provides an explanation of the contents of messages. Appendix II presents order information in context of Ogdens triangle and discusses simplified designs. ITU-T Rec. M.1403 (08/2007) 1 ITU-T Recommendation M.14
30、03 Formalization of generic orders 1 Scope The area of interest is the communication of orders between operators about telecommunication services and network interconnections. The contents of the orders are defined in other Recommendations. The focus of this Recommendation is on end user terminology
31、 as defined in an external terminology schema and which puts requirements on other schemata and implementations. 2 References The following ITU-T Recommendations and other references contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this Recommendation. At the time o
32、f publication, the editions indicated were valid. All Recommendations and other references are subject to revision; users of this Recommendation are therefore encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition of the Recommendations and other references listed below. A lis
33、t of the currently valid ITU-T Recommendations is regularly published. The reference to a document within this Recommendation does not give it, as a stand-alone document, the status of a Recommendation. ITU-T M.1400 ITU-T Recommendation M.1400 (2006), Designations for interconnections among operator
34、s networks. ITU-T M.1401 ITU-T Recommendation M.1401 (2006), Formalization of interconnection designations among operators telecommunication networks. ISO 3166-1 ISO 3166-1:2006, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions Part 1: Country codes. 3 Definitions This Recom
35、mendation is comprised of structured definitions in the context of an external terminology schema graph. This Recommendation uses all definitions in ITU-T M.1401, provides an additional order structure to these definitions, and provides correspondences between the two structures. 4 Abbreviations Thi
36、s Recommendation uses the following abbreviations: ICC ITU Carrier Code ICT Information and Communications Technology OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards UBL Universal Business Language 2 ITU-T Rec. M.1403 (08/2007) 5 Conventions Figure 1 shows boxes containing
37、 object class labels to indicate object classes. Lines supported with a reversed arrowhead indicate subordinate object classes. Lines with two-way arrows indicate references between object classes. A dashed one-way arrow with an S at the arrowhead indicates a schema reference and is here used to sta
38、te instance-class correspondences between Messages. “ 2) alphabetized object class references; and 3) alphabetized object classes that are contained within the given object class at the next lower level. Textual definitions and explanations of object classes, attributes and references are provided i
39、n paragraphs that are adjusted 5 mm further to the right of their respective labels. Object class labels are underlined; attribute group and attribute labels are not underlined. Object class references are written in blue, italics and underlined. The formalism used in this Recommendation is introduc
40、ed in Appendix III of ITU-T M.1401. Data attributes shall consist of sequences of characters, each character being either alphabetic (A-Z) or numeric (0-9). Additional requirements for symbols are explicitly stated in format requirements for specific attributes. It is recommended that alphabetic cha
41、racters be represented with upper case letters unless stated otherwise. Brown dotted lines indicate references between the main register part and the order register part. Brown textual references indicate references between the main register part and the order register part. ITU-T Rec. M.1403 (08/20
42、07) 3 6 External terminology schema NOTE Except for Order and Message and their references, the right-hand part is a copy of the left-hand part. The brown arrow shows the correspondences. Country may be contained in Corporation; this is not elaborated in this Recommendation. Figure 1 External termin
43、ology schema graph, depicting object classes (boxes), containment (reversed arrowheads) and references (two-way arrows) Country See ITU-T M.1401. Country See ITU-T M.1401. Name See ITU-T M.1401. Code See ITU-T M.1401. Operator See ITU-T M.1401. Operator See ITU-T M.1401. ICC See ITU-T M.1401. Order
44、An Order identifies a transaction relative to an organization, a part of an organization or a collaboration of organizations. This organization is typically an Operator, but may involve Customers, installation companies, etc. An Order comprises a set of Messages that are linked via the common Order.
45、 An Order can be of one or several types, like customer order, installation order, activation order, billing order or other. This is prescribed by the Type of each Message contained in the Order. 4 ITU-T Rec. M.1403 (08/2007) Number The Order Number uniquely identifies the Order within an Operator.
46、The Order Number is used to retrieve and follow up information on events that are described in the Message instances. Assignment of Order Numbers and management of order series are outside the scope of this Recommendation. The same Order Number may be used for a Request, Work order, etc., but differ
47、ent Numbers that are related by Derived orders may be used, as well. The Derived order may belong to another Operator. Derived order An Order may have several subordinate Derived orders, which each is a role of another Order. Dependent on the current Order, Derived orders may be generated automatica
48、lly. For example, the current Order may be a customer order/order request, while the Derived order may be an installation order. Served order An Order may have several subordinate Served orders, which each is a role of another Order. The current Order may be a construction order, which must be execu
49、ted before several installation orders can be executed. Message A Message is a statement or a compound set of statements. A statement is the carrier of information between people and between systems. Message type A message instance is of a message type. A message type provides a template for a message instance. Many message instances can refer to the same message class by the S(chema reference), and message classes can refer to other message classes recursively. The message type contains al
