Ontological evaluation of the ITU-T Recommendation G.805

Abstract

The ITU-T Recommendation G.805 is a telecommunication standard providing a generic functional architecture for transport networks and serving as the basis for several others networking and management specifications. Due to its fundamental importance, it is essential for this recommendation to be clear, complete and unambiguous, thus eliminating the spread of problems for all its using documents. This article employs an ontology-based systematic evaluation to verify the aforementioned characteristics on the ITU-T G.805 standard current documentation. Moreover, it discusses a number of ontological problems identified by this evaluation. Finally, the article illustrates with fragments of a well-founded reference model for the same domain, how these identified problematic situations can be addressed in a representation artifact.