"SCOPE@ PURPOSE@ APPLICATION The ATIS Next Generation Carrier Interconnection (NG-CI) Task Force (TF) TRs specify a standards-based interface for network-to-network interconnection for next generation network services. This document provides the service under test (SUT) configurations and their operations for verifying the conformance with the desired configuration and service interoperability. The purpose of this document is to specify the SUT configurations that must be utilized in order to verify the settings (to support ingress and egress processing) of the network border elements for interoperability of a service between providers. The SUT configurations are used as a framework to specify the call flows in the Test Suite document and may be used to develop test plan for service interoperability test. It is a component of a family of documents that taken as a whole provides an IP network to network interconnection (NNI) guideline that supports next generation service interoperability. This Release 1.0 addresses Basic VoIP service@ Basic VoIP service with DTMF support@ and Basic VoIP service with T.38 Fax support@ for native IP endpoints. Post release 1.0 will address support for RPH as well as services and capabilities such as domestic mobile-tomobile voice service interconnect over IP and international mobile and nomadic endpoints. Other services like wireline-TDM@ managed peer-to-peer@ mobile-to-mobile peering@ IPTV@ multimedia services@ gaming@ fixedmobile service convergence@ etc.@ may also be considered. The ATIS NG-CI TRs cover four aspects of interconnection and this specific TR has three other companion TRs that together address VoIP services Interconnection over IP-based links etworks. The companion TRs include the following: ? The ""Protocol Suites"" TR provides the service specific protocol requirements to support service interoperability. While the other documents in this Release 1.0 set make reference to the specifications covered@ the ""Protocol Suites"" TR identifies the specific details of protocol elements to be tested. ? The ""Test Suite"" TR provides the tests used for IP NNI interconnection testing in order to support service interoperability. ? The ""Technical Parameters"" TR provides a description of the Provider data for collection and eventual exchange for service planning in order to support service interoperability. Establishing and specifying the fixed protocol and configuration profiles@ and the variable or selectable parameters that can then be applied uniformly and consistently for interconnects@ will ensure a reliable level of conformance to a standard that supports the establishment of successful interoperability. Assumptions Due to the variety of security configurations and credentials possible between providers@ the use of IPSEC or TLS to support signaling or media streams will be subject to agreement between those providers and will not be defined within this document. The level of information presented here is intended to be sufficient to support interoperability testing events@ however additional work will be required to develop actual test scripts based on the test scenarios@ configurations and protocol suites presented It is understood that test SIP device endpoint E.164 addresses will need to be exchanged prior to testing. SIP URIs converted from TEL URI format will be used to convey the E164 addresses. (See section of ATIS-1000009.2006 for example URIs.) IPv4 is assumed unless otherwise stated. The term Provider is used to generically represent all types of parties."