From: Lisa Rajchel Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 11:10 AM To: Marisa Peacock Subject: FW: T1M1 - NEW XML INITIATIVE FOR TELECOMM From: Michael Fargano [SMTP:mfargan@advtech.uswest.com] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 2:46 PM To: new-work@ietf.org Subject: T1M1 - NEW XML INITIATIVE FOR TELECOMM Folks: Attached is the plain text version of a correspondence that was sent to Bert Wijnen and Randy Bush (IETF - Operations and Management Area Directors) from Technical Subcommittee T1M1 - with respect to a XML initiative that has been started in the area of telecommunications network management. A similar announcement and participation request was sent to other XML and Network Management interested parties, i.e., W3C, ebXML, OASIS, ATIS Fora, ITU, ETSI, etc. * Mike Fargano -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bert Wijnen bwijnen@lucent.com Randy Bush randy@psg.com IETF - Operations and Management Area Directors Dear Bert and Randy, Per previous discussions, Standards Committee T1 Technical Subcommittee T1M1 (www.t1.org ) is undertaking the initiative to develop a standard for the telecommunications network management derivative of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Please see the related ATIS press release (see ftp://ftp.atis.org/pub/atis/prss/052400.pdf) . The overall goal of this initiative is to develop a standard derivative of XML for use in telecommunications related transactions (e.g., CLEC ordering of DSL services), which would then be presented to the International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) as a contribution toward an international standard recommendation. This derivative of XML is referred to as the telecommunications Markup Language (tML). T1M1 had a well-attended interim meeting during the week of June 26, 2000 to kick-off the tML standards formulation work effort. In the process of formulating this standard, T1M1 welcomes and encourages your input and participation. Initial technical contributions have been called for and are expected to be presented for consideration at T1M1's next regular meeting from August 7 to 11 in Torrance California (see meeting notice at www.t1.org/t1m1/aug2000.htm) . The draft tML work program definition can be found in contribution file name 0M152140 on the T1M1 contribution web site (ftp://ftp.t1.org/pub/t1m1/new-t1m1.5/0m152140.doc) . We are encouraging submissions in the following technical areas: * Architectural considerations * Interfaces where it is appropriate to use tML * Requirements for supporting tML within telecommunication network management * Protocols for exchanging tML information (schema and data) * Methodology for defining schema * Use of existing repositories * Relationship to existing telecommunication network management models * API definitions and standard language bindings. With the high level of industry interest in tML, this work effort is expected to move rapidly. Any contributions or collaboration in this work effort are welcome. Please contact me if you would like to discuss any aspect of this matter. Sincerely, Mike Fargano, Chairman T1M1 mfargan@uswest.com 303-541-6081