Wholesale: Products & Services

Open Product/Process CR PC091014-1 Detail

Description Of Change

NOTE: Redlined chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 of Tech Pub 77384 were attached to the CR submission.

Project Meetings

12/17/14 Product/Process CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said the initial Level 4 notice was sent on November 12, 2014. The final notice and the CenturyLink response to CLEC comments were sent on December 16, 2014. The planned effective date is January 5, 2015. 11/19/14 Product/Process CMP Meeting Mark Coyne – CenturyLink said this CR was presented last month by Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink. There was an Ad hoc call on October 29 to review the proposed Tech Pub 77384 chapter updates. CenturyLink sent the level 4 notification on November 12 with a planned effective date of January 5, 2015. Mark said in addition to the planned revisions discussed on the ad hoc call, there were some chapters that only had rebranding. Mark asked if there were any questions. There were none.

10/29/14 Ad hoc CMP Meeting Introduce changes to Technical Publication 77384

Attendees: Kim Isaacs – Integra, Bonnie Johnson – Minnesota Department of Commerce, Laurie Roberson – Integra, Glenn Neal – CenturyLink, Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink, Mark Coyne – CenturyLink, John Hansen – CenturyLink, Susan Lorence – CenturyLink

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink provided a brief agenda and background on this CR. She indicated that questions would be captured as the chapters Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink reviewed the changes in the redlined Tech Pub 77384 chapters dated 5-25-12 that were posted to the wholesale calendar entry.

Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink then began the review of each redlined chapter. Jamal said those on the call were already familiar with the proposed changes associated with the MN Docket 09-1066 Settlement agreement. As agreed, CenturyLink is taking the proposed Tech Pub 77384 updates through CMP so all CLECs would have the opportunity to review them.

Technical Publication 77384, Chapter 1. Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink reviewed the redline updates. There were no additional proposed changes to this chapter.

Technical Publication 77384, Chapter 2. Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink reviewed the redlined updates. He said in Section 2.3, there is an update from Qwest to CenturyLink. There were no additional proposed changes to this chapter.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said that she had found the references to Qwest that remain also.

Technical Publication 77384, Chapter 3. Kim Isaacs – Integra said that she found a couple instances related to xDSL Capable Loops that were an oversight where there is wording that indicates the NCIs do not affect performance, specifically in Sections 3.4.3 and 3.8.3.

Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink agreed and said the sentence “The NCIs do not affect transport designs or performance” will be removed since this is a global change.

Kim Isaacs – Integra asked if in Section 3.8.3 whether wording should be added indicating that CenturyLink will provision the best available loop.

Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink said he agreed and that CenturyLink would use the same wording as in the other chapters for this.

Bonnie Johnson – Minnesota Department of Commerce said the second sentence of 3.8.3 remains that says the NCI codes are informative to CenturyLink and should be removed.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink said it was a surprise that there were still changes to be made after all of the prior review.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said that was because the group was working with multiple redlines of the Tech Pub.

Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink recapped the various changes that would be made to Chapter 3, Section 3.8.3: • Remove the sentence indicating NCs does not affect transport • Change the last sentence to reflect the customer has the option to inspect copper facilities. • Insert the sentence that CenturyLink will provision best available loop. • Remove the NCI codes are informative to CenturyLink.

The specific updates will be reflected in the revised redline version.

There was agreement that all chapters of the Tech Pub will need to be given a once over.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink said all chapters would be checked for the change from Qwest to CenturyLink, including chapters 4 and 7.

Technical Publication 77384, Chapter 5. Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink reviewed the redlined updates in Section 5.1.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said the redline in Section 5.3 covers multiple options.

Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink said in Section 5.5, he would make sure the title is clear. There were no additional proposed changes to this chapter.

Technical Publication 77384, Chapter 6. Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink reviewed the redlined updates. He said the Table of Contents would be updated to reflect 6.2 Performance Parameter Tests.

Bonnie Johnson – Minnesota Department of Commerce said she checked Section 6 to insure the two changes had been made and they had.

Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink said a global change will be made with the last sentence in Section 6.1 related to CenturyLink taking into account NC and NCI codes when assigning, etc. facilities will be made to Chapter 3, Section 3.4.3 where it says they are informative. The content in Section 3.8.3 associated with being “free of faults” will be put in Chapter 6.1 to replace the related sentence. Jamal said we will add the sentence to 6.1 regarding assigning, etc. facilities for xDSL.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink reiterated that the redline revisions will be posted along with the meeting minutes.

Kim Isaacs – Integra said in Section 6.2, the Loop Loop should be corrected.

Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink said the remaining changes in Chapter 6 had been agreed to.

All agreed there were no additional proposed changes to Chapter 6 at this time.

Technical Publication 77384, Chapter 8. Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink said there were no additional redlined updates other than the change from Qwest to CenturyLink.

All agreed there were no additional proposed changes to this chapter at this time but a final review will be made.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink proposed the following approach for review of the revisions that were identified on the call: • CenturyLink will provide the redlined Tech Pub 77384 Chapter revisions by November 5 associated with the ad hoc meeting minutes. • If the Tech Pub 77384 revisions cannot be made by that time, the ad hoc meeting minutes would be more explicit. • Following the review of the meeting minutes, CenturyLink would then send a level 4 notice with any additional revisions on November 12. • The planned effective date of the Tech Pub 77384 updates would be January 5, 2015.

There were no disagreements with this approach. Susan thanked everyone for taking time to review the Technical Publication 77384 updates.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:35 AM Mountain Time.

10/15/14 Product/Process CMP Meeting Jamal Boudhaouia – CenturyLink presented this new CR which introduces the changes to the Unbundled Loop Technical Publication as agreed to in the Minnesota Docket 09-1066 Settlement.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink said the Ad Hoc call to review the proposed Tech Pub 77384 updates is scheduled for October 29, at 11 AM MT and a CMP meeting notification will be sent shortly.

Kim Isaacs – Integra asked if the redlined chapters to Tech Pub 77384 will be posted online.

Susan Lorence – CenturyLink said due to the size of the documents, they would be posted to the Wholesale calendar entry for the Ad Hoc call.