ABSTRACT: Issue 4 of GR-2992, AS/LIDB-AS/LIDB Data Migration Interface Generic Requirements, replaces Issue 3.

This document provides the Telcordia view of generic requirements for the Line Information Database Administrative System (AS/LIDB) to AS/LIDB Data Migration Interface. The generic requirements for the interface include primarily the modes of data transfer, a data model, a data dictionary, and the application protocol used by the AS/LIDB. The application protocol is a set of conventions to manage communications between two entities.

Data Migration refers to the actions taken in the case when the end-customers' data and their service providers' data need to be moved from one AS/LIDB to another. The generic requirements in this document apply to an AS/LIDB's assembling, formatting, and transferring data for use by another AS/LIDB. This document includes generic requirements for the predefined AS/LIDB data items, data item aggregates, and protocol procedures for the AS/LIDB-AS/LIDB data migration interface. It also defines procedures for transferring AS/LIDB custom elements used for GetData.

Issue 4 incorporates the following:

• Support for descriptions, format, and encoding rules for two new line elements (data items), and to add them to the GD aggregate of the logical data model and associated requirements. These elements are retrievable from LIDB via GetData and other wireless and IP-based protocols (e.g., LDAP)

• Extended Name (EN) String
  
  ---This parameter can store up to 60 characters of name information associated with a Telephone number (TN), thus making available a longer version of the Generic Name String (currently limited to 15 characters).


• Extended Name Presentation Indicator
  
  ---This indicator indicates whether the name associated with a TN is "public" or "private." An indication of "private" means that name presentation is not allowed for the Calling Name Delivery CLASS feature. An indication of "public" means that name presentation is allowed.