II. The Revised Joint Partial Settlement Agreement

In their motion, the Settling Parties state that the JPSA represents their best efforts to ensure that OSS performance measurements and standards reflect the requirements of the real world. Towards this end, the Settling Parties have amended language, added two new measurements, deleted one measurement, included additional services and service levels, modified standards, clarified language, and agreed to meet and review OSS performance measurements again in March 2001. The Settling Parties have also proposed a timetable for implementing the changes entailed by adopting the JPSA.

In the JPSA, where the Settling Parties agreed about a proposed modification, the parties changed or added language to the standards we adopted in D.99-08-020. Where the parties disagreed about a proposed modification, they left the original language intact and recorded the proposed modification in an "open issues" document. The Settling Parties have also agreed to an implementation schedule for the JPSA, which they included under Section VIII of the JPSA. The November 6^th proposed JPSA is attached at Appendix C.

To facilitate our review of the JPSA, we summarize the purpose of each OSS performance measurement, identify the proposed modifications contained in the JPSA, and specify the disputed issues, referred to by the Settling Parties as "open issues." We provide this discussion in a separate appendix, Appendix B. We do this due to the length and technical nature of the summary.