scope:

The present document provides an overview of Network and Service Management related standards, both published and draft. For the present document "Standards" are the published outputs of defacto and de-jura Standards Organizations and Industry Forums. The standards are grouped by a number of criteria in order to assist the user in identifying relevant documents.

It is intended to be used as a reference document that can be used to identify relevant standards and hopefully avoid the development of duplicate standards where adequate standards are available.

A document of this kind in an evolving field can only ever be a "snapshot" of the current situation and will need to be frequently revised.

The present document is structured as follows:

• clause 4 identifies the organizations producing relevant standards;
• clause 5 provides an overview of the methodology used in grouping these standards;
• clause 6 provides an analysis of the standards identified based on the categories identified in clause 5;
• annex A provides a list of "standards" on a body by body basis.