ABSTRACT: This document provides the view of Telcordia on generic requirements for a test function to be supported at Gateway Signaling Transfer Points (GSTPs) known as the Gateway STP Local Message Screening Test Capability.

This feature would provide a mechanism by which network operations personnel and/or operations systems applications would submit parameterized "sample" Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) messages to the GSTP to determine the resultant message screening outcomes. The objective is to permit the service providers' personnel to verify the consistency of the user-provisioned message screening tables, as populated via the memory administration process, against the desired or intended screening actions for various types of SS7 messages having different message attributes. The document incorporates requirements for the test's support of Signaling Connection Control Part (SCCP) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISDNUP) Message Type screening at the GSTP, as well as performance and capacity requirements for the test capability.

GR-1272 replaced TR-NWT-001272.