3 Definitions and abbreviations
32.1403GPPRelease 17Subscription Management (SuM) requirementsTelecommunication managementTS
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in 3GPP TR 21.905 [1] and the following apply:
actor: entity, party, person or organization playing one or more roles.
Integration Reference Point (IRP): See 3GPP TS 32.102 [15].
Network Operator (NO): See 3GPP TR 21.905 [1].
organization: ‘legal entity’ that may perform one or more ‘business roles’ when interacting with other organizations.
PLMN operator: See 3GPP TR 21.905 [1].
reseller Service Provider (SP): actor that resells services provided and defined technically by another service provider. The reseller may re-brand the service or offer a modified tariff package to its customers.
retailer: organization that sells 3GPP User Equipment (UE) and services to retail customers.
role: defined by a set of properties or attributes that describe the capabilities of an entity that can be performed on behalf of other role(s). An activity performed by an actor. Each actor can play many roles.
service: See 3GPP TR 21.905 [1].
service integrator: organization that takes a set of services from other providers and derives an end-to-end set of services. It has responsibility for the end to end service QoS to the customer.
Service Profile (SProf): a service specific subscription profile component.
Service Provider (SP): See 3GPP TR 21.905 [1].
subscribed services profile: contains identifications of subscribed services, their status and reference to service preferences; this is a component of the subscriber profile.
subscriber: See 3GPP TR 21.905 [1].
subscriber profile: The set of data managed and stored by Subscription Management (SuM) for a subscriber for the management of associated users and subscribed services and the limits relative to their use.
subscription: See 3GPP TR 21.905 [1].
Subscription Management (SuM): set of capabilities that allow Operators, Service Providers (SPs), and indirectly subscribers, to provision, control, monitor the subscription profile.
subscription profile: The set of data managed and stored by network domains and subsystems for the operation and execution of the services provided to a specific user associated with a subscriber.
subscription profile component: discrete subset of the subscription profile that may be stored or managed separately from other subsets e.g. components that may be stored in different domains, subsystems or replicated using different synchronization rules.
trusted third party: organization that performs an agreed role on behalf of two or more other organizations (e.g. authentication, trust, market place services etc.).
user: See 3GPP TR 21.905 [1].
Value Added Service Provider (VASP): See 3GPP TR21.905 [1].
3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
2G Second Generation Mobile
3G Third Generation Mobile
API Application Programming Interface
AuC Authentication Center
B2B Business to Business
CS Circuit Switch
DDM Data Definition Method
EIR Equipment Identity Register
GTT Global Text Telephony
HLR Home Location Register
HSS Home Subscriber Server
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
IRP Integration Reference Point (see 3GPP TS 32.102 [15])
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MWIF Mobile Wireless Internet Forum
NPDB Number Portability Data Base
OAM Operations, Administration and Maintenance
OSA Open Services Access
OSS Operations Support System
PS Packet Switch
QoS Quality of Service
SP Service Provider
SProf Service Profile
SuM Subscription Management
eTOM enhanced Telecom Operations Map (TMF/ITU-T)
UICC Universal Integrated Circuit Card
USIM Universal Subscriber Identity Module
VASP Value Added Service Provider
VHE Virtual Home Environment
VPLMN Visited Public Land Mobile Network