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 Sep 16,2023, the new ASOG version will be ASOG 67.0, 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 67
This section provides the changes made to the Help System to be compliant with the new ASOG guidelines.
The flash-cut to ASOG 67.0 on Sep 16, 2023, introduces the following changes to the application, business rules, and help system.
The following table depicts the type of change category definitions |
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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 |
= |
Field format change (e.g., moved to another section of the form, etc.) |
DEF |
= |
Definition change |
DEFN |
= |
Definition notes addition, change, deletion |
VE |
= |
Valid entries addition, change, deletion |
VEN |
= |
Valid entry notes addition, change, deletion |
USE |
= |
Usage statement change |
USEN |
= |
Usage notes addition, change, deletion |
DC |
= |
Data characteristics change (e.g., change from numeric to alpha/numeric) |
DCL |
= |
Data characteristics length change |
DCN |
= |
Data characteristics note addition, change, deletion |
EX |
= |
Example addition, change, deletion |
EXN |
= |
Example notes addition, change, deletion |
FORM |
= |
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 |
= |
Identifies changes within the text of a section (i.e, additions or deletions of fields |
1. EVC Form Changes .
1.1 The new EVC_QTY field is displayed above the ETHERNET VIRTUAL CONNECTION section, with dropdown values = 1, 2.
1.2. The revised tooltip for the EVCNUM field will read: “Identifies a unique number associated with the Ethernet Virtual Connection. 4 numeric characters. Valid Values: 0001, 0002.”
