Team, the following are minutes of the Nov 18-19th Operations as captured by Lorin Pollock (Sprint) and Robin Meier (Ameritech). Items that are bolded and italicized have been added by myself. If there are major omissions or items in error, please let me know and I will modify the minutes. (Barry)

In attendance:

Larry Vasquez AT&T

H.L. Gowda AT&T

Spencer Brooks AT&T

Liz Coakley Ameritech

Sue Seitz Ameritech

Jason Williams NextLink

Donna Navickas Ameritech

Kent Roberts Ameritech

Rick Jones Illinois NENA

Darin Liston Sprint

Lorin Pollock Sprint

Robin Meier Ameritech

Ron Steen Bell South

John Shea Lockheed Martin

Al Evans GTE

David Kozar Lockheed Martin

Steve Markowski Lockheed Martin

Jan Trout-Avery Lockheed Martin

Phil Presworsky TCG

Chris Kennedy AT&T

Dan Gonos Winstar

Hazel Wagner B9D/Nortel

Wayne Freer NextLink

Barry Bishop Ameritech

 

ICC LNP OPERATIONS MEETING - NUMBER POOLING NOVEMBER 18,1997

Barry Bishop passed out the NUMBER POOLING flow charts developed by Donna Navickas (Ameritech). The provisioning flow charts and narratives were also distributed.

Today’s’ agenda:

1.) NPAC/SMS Schedule

2.) Review NPAC flows

3.) Review process flows for # pooling changes

4.) Short term-Pre Mechanized/Long term-Post Mechanized

NPAC Requirements are due by 1/15/98

NPAC Mechanized 6/1/98

Donna reviewed Pooling flow charts. The 847 NPA needs to be ready to pool around the 1/1/98 time frame which will require two flows ----one prior to NPAC upgrades and the other as a long term following NPAC/SMS upgrade.

Basic Assumption is that the Pooled NXX is already assigned to a single SP. The NXX owner will "donate" the 1000s group block(s) available to be pooled if it is an existing code. Discussion about new NXX and if it will be assigned in the LERG as portable. The Pool administrator will allocate 1000s groups for new NXXs to Service Providers? If any portion of an NXX is pooled, the NXX should be considered portable.

ASSUMPTIONS:

NXXs assigned to an LNP capable Service Provider by the Number Administrator will be shown as ported in the LERG.

Only LNP capable Service Providers will participate in pooling for new codes (NXXs) assigned.

For current assigned NXXs in the LERG that will be involved in pooling, the NXXs must be opened for porting before 1000s blocks can be re-assigned for pooling.

The LERG will not show NXX-X (Questions about the accuracy of this statement) Decided to remove this assumption.

Agree that with pooling will be "pre-porting 1000s block with snapback to the block holder".

Donna again tried to walk through process flows for pooling.

The pooling number administration sub-committee is defining the administrative procedures for requesting TN blocks within a rate center. (Block 1)

Block 1 add "within a rate center"

Block 3 changes: -Old SPID & -New SPID and - From switch CLLI & - To switch CLLI.

Block 3 now reads: Pool Administrator documents & distributes required data:

-Eff. Date

-1K Block

-Old SPID

-New SPID

-Default LRN

-Default DPC

-From Switch CLLI

-To Switch CLLI

ISSUE: MCI does not see the need for the LERG to contain the NPA/NXX-X which it has already been modified to contain. Major discussion ensued-----Barry stated that this is not an issue for this forum.

(Note: Lerg has already been modified per the recommendation of the appropriate ATIS committee. If there are those who feel that this needs to be changed or modified, your representative to the appropriate ATIS committee (was the old DIG committee) should be contacted )

Items required for LERG update:

NPA/NXX-X (block and range)

CLLI of "to switch" (question as to if the CLLI is required)

LERG OCN

Effective Date

Barry will pass this information to the Pooling Administration sub-committee.

Donna reviewed the changes to the Pooling/Non-Contaminated flow chart.

Block 1 SP requests lK TN block within a rate center

Block 3 Described above

Block 4a Change donating to donor

Block 5 Move note into the box "Min 5 days in advance"

Block 7 add "on effective date"

Definition of "effective date": The date that the block owner can begin assigning numbers in the ported 1000s group.

Block 8 was moved to follow block 6.

Block 8 verbiage changed to "On Eff. date NPAC Downloads Pooled Data."

TIME LINE DISCUSSION - Time requirements prior to effective date.

There was a discussion as to "how long does NPAC need for clerical activity" Decided on 3 Business Days. 5 Business days are required prior to activation for a notice of "first port". The question arose "How long does the Number Pooling Administrator need to assign a 1000s block?" Should be determined by the Number Pooling Administration Sub-committee.

There was a question as to why we should differ from the already established timelines used today for NPA/NXX assignment.

A time window was selected of 30 calendar days for the entire administrative process.

A discussion as to whether the LERG update is critical to the timeline & porting the 1000s block. Barry suggested that it was critical because a customer may want to port from the pooled block with companies not knowing who owns the block which is late being entered in the LERG.

It was suggested that each company investigate Why and How the LERG information is used in the pooling process. IS THE LERG NEEDED FOR POOLING?

NUMBER POOLING /CONTAMINATED - POST NPAC REQUIREMENT IMPLEMENTATION

Flow Chart discussion.

How does the block owner know which numbers are contaminated so that they will not be assigned? 50 or less contaminated numbers is a qualifier for pooling a 1000s block for the NPA 847. How does the Donor notify the block owner and when. Should the information be given block owner at the time of the effective date? The block owner has a need to know which numbers are contaminated prior to activation in order to plan number assignment. The donor companies need to inform the Pool Administrator which numbers are unavailable in the contaminated block. The Pooling Administrator gives the recipient Service Provider the list of unavailable numbers in the contaminated 1000s block. There is an issue as to how unavailable numbers following the pooling are de-ported to the block holder after the aging process.

Block 8 was determined as not needed since unavailable numbers in the contaminated block have already been ported.

There is an issue that disconnected numbers will be sent to reorder verses intercept announcement unless a separate route index is assigned for the recording. This issue is related to LNP including the Pooling scenario.

Delete TN inventory box should be added prior to NPAC activation box.

Pool Administrator should calculate intra porting completion date for contaminated (unavailable) numbers.

NPAC activates the pooled block following the intra port is complete and prior to the activation date.

How do we support pooling prior to NPAC being ready - manual verses mechanized. Perot and Lockheed must be upgraded simultaneously. IXCs cannot utilize multiple NPACs who are not at the same release.

671 1000s blocks that are uncontaminated and an additional 185 blocks which are contaminated with 10 or less numbers. 543 blocks are assignable with 348 targeted as pooling candidates. Of 330 with 50 or less, 182 are candidates. 348 clean blocks and 182 contaminated blocks are targeted for pooling for a total of 530 1000s blocks targeted for pooling.

Review of the Code Opening Processes with pooling.

Review of Repair Process flow chart.

Barry will provide new flow chart for Disconnect Process flow chart.

 

ICC OPERATIONS MEETING NOVEMBER 19, 1997

Reviewed the revised NUMBER POOLING/NON-CONTAMINATED-POST NPAC REQUIREMENT IMPLEMENTATION process flow chart. Numerous corrections were made to both the non-contaminated and contaminated process flow charts.

MANUAL PROCESS FLOW discussion.

Assumptions:

The 348 uncontaminated 1000s blocks should be used prior to utilizing the 182 contaminated blocks. This will allow time for the process to be mechanized via NPAC SMS.

By 2/1/98, a working number administrator will be in place for the 847 NPA.

Non contaminated flow (manual) ----- Blocks 1 through 4 remains the same. Block 5 requires clarification for the manual process. Both the recipient and the donor issue the order for the 1000s block with matching information to NPAC.

Modification of a pool block effective date -- the recipient should notify the donor and NPAC if the effective date is to be changed. The same communication also applies to cancellation order and should include notification of the number pool administrator.

Snap back discussion with manual NPAC. At the end of the manual process, an audit should be performed to identify disconnected numbers that need to be returned to the block holder. The block holder(s) should initiate the audit. During the manual process, snapback would occur to the code owner verses the block holder. NPAC should identify those numbers within pooled 1000s blocks that have been subject to snapback to code owner verses block holder and then should NPAC perform a true up with or without the the code/block holders knowledge. It was suggested that this issue be discussed in detail as to how and who will be involve in the audit process at the end of the manual period. Numbers disconnected during the manual process should not be re-assigned.

POOLING DISCUSSION CLOSED

Note: the updated pooling process flows (as a result of this meeting) are available under the Operations Icon on Ported.com. Additional changes have been made by the NPAC team and will be made available via the same location as soon as I receive a copy.

MASS CALLING DISCUSSION:

Barry handed out a configuration drawing showing how mass calling is handled in Chicago using 591 NXX for Mass Call customers and discussed how the choking is accomplished. Ameritech will work one on one with CLECs that have a need to to serve a Mass Call customer to provide a choked network. (Note: this is based on the consensus obtained in the Aug/Sept 96 Operations meeting where it was agreed that mass calling numbers need not be queried. This agreement was for the Chicago MSA only. Interconnection agreements with Ameritech may already have verbiage to this effect, and/or trunking may already be in place. Please verify internal to your own company.)

NANC may develop alternative solutions for providing mass calling from CLECs.

SBC provided a handout describing their method of handling Mass Calling entitled "HIGH VOLUME CALL IN/CHOKE SERVICE NUMBER PORTABILITY"

NEXTLINK New Entrant Testing

Nextlink is a new entrant in the Chicago MSA and would like to begin LNP testing very shortly with each participating company. The"Testing Strawman" and various items required to test were discussed. Each company will provide Nextlink with their Single Point Of Contact Name and telephone number to facilitate the testing. The amount and type of testing between Nextlink and each company will mutually be agreed upon by the SPOC's.

The following are the SPOC's:

Ameritech Barry Bishop 312-220-8000 (Temporary)

AT&T Clyde Hamby (Please contact Larry Vasquez to confirm and obtain Tel#)

MCI Hamp Oberle 703-918-0445

TCG Art Brett 718-355-5720

Or Rajeev Trika 312-705-9940

Winstar Don Gonos 248-539-7879

NextLink Jason Williams 425-519-8967

 

 

 

Additional Items:

At the 11/20/97 ICC Steering Committee meeting, it was noted that Ameritech's Tariff for cost recovery was not approved. At this point cost recovery has not been resolved. All Ameritech deployment dates are on hold pending cost recovery. The current roll-out schedule does not reflect Ameritech's schedule at this point. Ameritech will provide a new schedule for both the Chicago and Detroit MSA's once the cost recovery issue has been resolved.

Next Meeting: The next meeting is Dec 17th, and will be held at

Ameritech Headquarters

2000 W. Ameritech Center Dr.

Hoffman Estates, Il

Room 3I78