This document describes, from the carriers perspective, a generic service framework for the optical transport services over automatic switched optical networks (ASON) and associated requirements for the User-Network Interface (UNI) and control plane functions. It includes the consolidated requirements produced by the carrier sub-working group of the OIF Architecture Working Group. This document is intended to provide a service framework and high-level requirements to guide OIF and IEFT for the work on UNI and other interfaces to the Optical Layer (OL) Control Plane. In order to provide timely guidance, no attempt has been made to provide comprehensive or detailed requirements at this time; instead, we have focused on topics of particular interest or concern to the carrier community. We assume that the user of this document is able and willing to derive the more specific requirements necessary to define a product that meets the intent of this document.
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