Talk:Provisioning

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I think the opening section of this article is confusing, and thus a little misleading. It begins by immediately casting "Provisioning" in terms of telecommunications, and continues for several paragraphs along these lines. The transition to the CIO perspective and all that seems also to shift the conversation away from telecommunications and towards (rightfully I think) a more general systems perspective of provisioning.

Shouldn't the focus of this article be on the general idea of provisioning? It reads now as provisiniong in terms of telecommunications.

I suggest refactoring the introduction text to explain the abstract, general systems notion of provisioning, and leaving telecommunications as a subsection, since it is only an example of the provisinoing concept in action, not a definition nor explanation of provisinoing.

Anyone who monitors this article object? If not, I will try to refactor and make this article a little more intelligent.

Amohren 19:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I think you're right on. It definitely needs lots of work for clarity. Right now it's a lot of pieces. Why don't you get it started, and then I will join in and help. NuclearWinner 20:12, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mobile subscriber provisioning

I added the mobile subscriber provisioning section, since there was no accurate description of how a mobile subscriber gets provisioned, in a way in which the subscriber would easily understand.
Hephail 10:33, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

ISPs and open configuration standards like OVAL and SPML weren't dealt with at all. This was a major omission since users of low end ISPs are the second largest group of persons who'll read this, after mobile phone providers. Corporate users are only third probably, but even their concerns weren't dealt with that well. Utility computing and its poor cousin boot image control were left out, and the management priorities 1. security 2. compliance 3. efficiency weren't spelled out. The new version isn't perfect as it relies on specialist terms, some of which need to be redirects, until there are good articles on all aspects of a modern signal infrastructure. For instance user privacy is a different thing that customer privacy, and email forwarding is a mess of its own that should be in a separate article from email, and how network operation center or NOC gets no article is hard to explain.