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Competitive Topics Forum
07/17/03
The meeting began at 10:30 a.m. Discussion began with a review of some of the Topics
to determine some priority for addressing them with the determination made as follows:
Topic B-4 (Line loss notification process) - Allegiance indicated it could be closed
but MCI will report back at a future meeting on its position.
Topic DSL-2 (ADSL product availability) - FDN indicated it should be left open.
Topic EEL-3 (Credits for EEL conversions) - XO is to check for examples and report
back at the August Forum meeting.
Topic O-9 (Line sharing ordered via LENS) - Covad indicated it could be closed.
Topic O-8 (Line sharing ordering and provisioning) - left open.
Topic P-4 (Number reassignments) - left open; issue to be discussed at the August
meeting.
Topic O-7 (Single customer interface) - closed.
Topic P-6 (Lack of provisioning parity for loops) - left open.
Topic P-8 (Customers served via remote facilities) - left open.
Topic R-5 (Provisioning of unbundled copper loop - nondesign) - left open.
Topic R-6 (Sunset Tester) - left open.
Topic DSL-4 (Cooperative testing on IDSL and ISDN loops) - left open.
Topic UNE-3 (Move orders for UNE-P sent manually) - closed.
Topic UNE-4 (Terminology confusion between resale and UNE-P) - left open.
Topic DSL-5 (Assignment of DSL lines to billing telephone number) - closed.
Topic MGT-2 (Performance measures for complex orders) - left open.
On Topic O-12 (LCSC email process for manual orders) - Stan Greer with BellSouth
indicated that this would be addressed in a future software release and he will
update the Forum on a schedule at the September meeting.
On Topic B-1 (Delays in billing new contract rates) - BellSouth indicated it was
planning for resolving by the end of 2003 and would report back at the September
meeting.
On Topic PO-1 (End user migration) - Sharon Norris with AT&T reported on the
progress of the team working on developing a proposed rule. Several meetings have
been held and Sharon identified some of the outstanding issues still to be resolved.
The team plans to bring a draft of the rule to the August meeting.
On Topic O-10 (Single point of contact for LENS problems), Allegiance will discuss
at the September meeting.
Topic B-3 (EMI records show local as access) will also be discussed at the September
meeting.
On Topic PO-2 (Pending facilities), BellSouth will explore how it might be able
to provide more detailed information on the type of facilities or construction needed
to complete an order and will report back at the September meeting.
On Topic P-3 (10 digit translations) - Stan Greer indicated that no quick fix could
be identified and this would have to be addressed as a major project. It was unclear
whether this project should go through the change control process or not. Stan will
report back at the August meeting.
There was discussion of whether the telecommunications bill passed by the 2003 Florida
legislature would impact any of the Forum's Topic. Since the legislation dealt with
retail issues, it did not appear that there would be any impact by the legislation
on the Forum's Topics.
The next meeting was scheduled for August 28, 2003 at 10:30 am. Major item of discussion
will be Topic PO-1 with updates on Topics B-4, EEL-3, P-4, and P-3.