The present document is part of a TS-family covering the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects, Telecommunication management; as identified below:

• TS 32.501: Self-Configuration of Network Elements; Concepts and Integration Reference Point (IRP) Requirements;
• TS 32.502: Self-Configuration of Network Elements Integration Reference Point (IRP); Information Service (IS);
• TS 32.506: Self-Configuration of Network Elements Integration Reference Point (IRP); Solution Set (SS) definitions.

The present document defines the Information Service (IS) part of the Self-Configuration IRP (SCIRP). It describes the semantics of the information and the interactions visible across Itf-N in a protocol independent way. The information is specified by means of Information Object Classes (IOCs) and the interactions by means of operations and notifications. The present document does not specify the syntax (encoding) of the information. The scope of this version of the TS is restricted to self-configuration of eNBs. The present documents also describes how already defined Itf-N functionalities are used in the context of Self-Configuration.