The scope of this Document includes the exchange of information between the following parties: ? A Vendor/Manufacturer and its Customer(s) ? A Vendor/Manufacturer and its Customer and that Customer's interconnected ? Service Providers ? Vendors/Manufacturers ? Access Service Providers ? Access Service Providers and Access Service Customers The exchange of information between the following parties is explicitly outside the scope of this Document: ? Access Service Customers/Providers and the FCC ? Access Service Customers This Document is intended both to supplement existing practices and to establish new practices for information exchange. The following list is intended to represent a complete list of sources of information for sharing. The identified sources include: ? Service Provider Stand alone Testing environment ? Compatibility testing between Service Providers ?Service Provider daily operations ? Service Provider outage reports and analysis ? Service Provider and/or Vendor/Manufacturer documentation ? Service Provider Security Reports and Analysis ? Vendor/Manufacturer development testing ? Vendor/Manufacturer trouble information reports and analysis ? Vendor/Manufacturer trouble resolution reports ? Observed ambiguities or differences in requirements interpretations Purpose This document is intended to provide the appropriate guidance to facilitate the sharing of information. It identifies types of information which may be shared@ the circumstances under which it should be shared@ the extent to which sharing is appropriate@ and the mechanisms and timing for that sharing. It represents industry consensus arrived at with the full participation of members of the Network Interconnection Interoperability Forum which consists of Access Service Providers@ Access Service Customers and Vendor/Manufacturers.