ASOG 66.0 Overview

Access Service Ordering Guidelines (ASOG )
Industry guidelines for issuing Access Service Requests (ASRs) as sponsored by the Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF) and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). These guidelines outline the forms, data elements and the business rules necessary to create an Access Service Request.

On Mar18,2023, the new ASOG version will be ASOG 66.0, it has been included as part of VFO's validation process. This portion of the Help system is to allow users to gain a greater understanding of the forms, fields and valid entries in an ASOG compliant Access Service Request.

What's New in ASOG 66

This section provides the changes made to the Help System to be compliant with the new ASOG guidelines.

The flash-cut to ASOG 66.0 on Mar 18, 2023, introduces the following changes to the application, business rules, and help system.

 The following table depicts the type of change category definitions

TYPE OF CHANGE

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CATEGORY DEFINITIONS

NEW

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Adding a new field

REM

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Removing an existing field

FN

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Field/Tag name change (e.g., EXEMPT REASON changed to ER)

FORMAT

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Field format change (e.g., moved to another section of the form, etc.)

DEF

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Definition change

DEFN

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Definition notes addition, change, deletion

VE

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Valid entries addition, change, deletion

VEN

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Valid entry notes addition, change, deletion

USE

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Usage statement change

USEN

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Usage notes addition, change, deletion

DC

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Data characteristics change (e.g., change from numeric to alpha/numeric)

DCL

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Data characteristics length change

DCN

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Data characteristics note addition, change, deletion

EX

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Example addition, change, deletion

EXN

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Example notes addition, change, deletion

FORM

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Changes made to the ASR forms (i.e., additions, rearrangements, field length changes or deletions of fields

GLOSSARY

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Identifies changes within the glossary sections (i.e., additions or deletions of fields)

TEXT

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Identifies changes within the text of a section (i.e, additions or deletions of fields

1. ASR Form Changes .

1.1 The new SSDI_PRILOC field is displayed in the ADMINISTRATIVE section, to the right of the DDD, with a calendar icon

1.2. The new SSDI_SECLOC field is displayed in the ADMINSTRATIVE section, to the right of the new SSDI_PRILOC field, with a calendar icon.