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EDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE
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The TMF event
horizon
By Tim McElligott
Now that the whole of the OSS world has safely returned home from
TeleManagement World in Dallas to practice their software development
and marketing voodoo, the question lingers: How has the world been
changed by TMW?
It was a very successful event by North American standards. But unless
something positive comes of it, it was just another event. Oh, we at
Telephony had fun with our video coverage, and forum
board members got to introduce a lot of new themes and initiatives.
Vendors got to strut their stuff on the Catalyst stage, and BT even
announced a significant
initiative at the event. More important, the forum challenged
itself
to reach out to the media world--or die. Well, nothing so dramatic, but
it will be important to extend the forum's reach and thereby its
members' reach to this strong new dynamic in communications.
However, all this happened within the confines of the Adam's Mark
Hotel.
It must carry beyond that. TMF members can't afford to allow the TMW
event to become an event horizon, a boundary from which the
illuminating
ideas emanating from the forum never reach the outside world.
In six months time, when the TMF holds its next event in Nice, France
(which is a very successful event by European standards), and after
which it holds its Team Action Week, the industry needs to see some
results. We need to be more than a step closer to formulating a common
definition of a Service Delivery Platform. The Telecom Media
Convergence
group needs to have firm commitments from the media world. PrOSSpero
must prove itself truly necessary. Network operators need to know that
their software vendors are behind them with interoperable solutions
more
than they are behind them fighting amongst each other to control the
next standard.
I think it's quite doable, as they say.
E-mail me at tmcelligott@telephonyonline.com.
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