DATE:         August 4, 1997
TO:           Bill Brink, Andy Goletz
FROM:         Mike Noack
CC:           John Fanelli, Steve Callahan, Steve Ingram
RE:           Change Order Freeze

overview

       The Alliance and ISO Project Management are recommending a multiple
       release strategy throughout 1998 to address additional functionality
       requests related to the SI/SA/BBS subsystems.

Scope

       The Alliance needs to focus their time on completing already committed
       work. In order to save time in the short term, the only changes that will
       be implemented prior to 1/1/98 will fall into one of the following
       categories:

                1. When a significant functional gap between the Tariff and DSOW
                   is found and cannot be resolved by amending the Tariff and a
                   temporary solution is not sufficient.

                2. When a significant functional gap is identified during
                   integration testing.

____Requirements identified as falling into the above categories need to be
addressed immediately.

       Those requirements that do not fall into the above categories will be
       processed in September as part of a 1998 release of the relevant software
       component.

Process

       All proposed functionality changes will follow the following process
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