Source:	Convenor, TSGSA WG5
Title:	The name of the 3GPP/TSGS/WG5
Document for:	Review by members
1.	Introduction
The WG5 of TSGSA met on 1-2 February 1999 in Sophia Antipolis felt that the presently set name of WG, “Network Management”, may potentially mislead people to presume that specification of the business and service management aspects are not within the scope of the WG. The possibility of this ambiguity was brought in when the most recent ITU-T Recommendation on Network Management presented four levels of network management within the TMN (telecommunications management network), and termed the third level as “network management layer”. So, the WG agreed to proposing to rename its own name from “Network Management Work Group” to “Telecom Management Working Group”. The Network Management Forum (NMF), the most influential network management forum in the private sector has also changed its name from “Network Management Forum” to “Telecom Management Froum” to avoid the same potential misunderstanding.
2.	Recommendation
In order to avoid the potential confusion explained above, the WG proposes its name to be changed to
Telecom Management Working Group
from its presently known 
Network Management Working Group.