For specific team information, it is suggested that you go directly to the team information on the Collaboration Workspace (as described below) or directly contact the team leader.
For initial liaison contact (from other standards bodies), please contact the TIP Program Chair, Stephen Fratini (sfratini(at)telcordia.com). For general information (assuming you cannot find what you need from the instructions on this page), please contact the TIP Program Manager (Antonio Plutino, aplutino(at)tmforum.org).
TIP is comprised of two types of teams:
- Coordination Team – this is a TIP team that provides governance, technical oversight or marketing across the entire TIP.
- Product Team – this is a TIP team that either provides the details concerning a given feature or consolidates features into deliverables.
A complete list of the TIP teams can be seen when you click here.
Coordination Teams
The current TIP coordination teams are as follows:
- Steering Team (ST) – this team handles a variety of items concerning the overall management, direction, change control and product lifecycle processes for TIP.
- Technical Coordination (TC) team – this team handles the technical coordination across all the TIP working teams.
- Go to Market (GtM) team – this team is in charge of all marketing related deliverables and of all activities needed to accelerate and maximize the adoption of TIP technology in the industry, prioritized according to the Steering Team’s overall directions.
Product Teams
The current TIP product teams are as follows:
Framework
This team is responsible for components and artifacts that are commonly applied to all interfaces and APIs produced by TIP.
Implementation
This team is responsible for promoting the widespread dissemination and
adoption of TIP standard interfaces through the creation of an open
source project with the goal of reducing the time to market for
implementers of TIP interfaces.
Feature Design Teams
The feature design teams provide details feature definitions including requirements, use case, information model and interface specifications.
- Resource Management – this team will handle the specification of features related to specific types of resources such as technology-specific networks (e.g., management of T-MPLS), equipment and external plant entities.
- Service Management – this team will handle the specification of features related to specific types of services such as VoIP, IPTV and VPNs and other strictly service-level management items such as Subscription Management.
Interface Integration and Delivery (IID) Teams
These teams are responsible for the preparation of unified specifications (including reference implementation and test kits) using output from the Feature Design teams.
- Ordering and Activation – this team covers ordering and activation for resources, services, products and customers.
- Inventory – this team covers inventory and discovery management for resources, services and products.
- Resource and Service Assurance – this team covers performance management, fault management, diagnostic and maintenance management for resources and services. Service quality management is also within the scope of this team.
- Trouble Ticketing – this team covers trouble ticketing.
- Usage Data Management – this team covers items related to usage collection and billing.
- Enterprise Identity Management - this team covers items related to security issues arising in multi-vendor mobile networks.
Interface Program Product Delivery (PDT) Team
The TMForum Interface Program has been established as a result of a merger between several interface programs: mTOP, OSS/J, CO~OP and IPDR. Those programs have outstanding commitment for deliverables. During the transition period a temporary product delivery sub team will be responsible for handle the packaging and delivery of multi-document deliverables from these teams.