This Recommendation provides a protocol-neutral management information model for managing the ASON control plane. It identifies the telecommunication management network (TMN) managed entities required. These entities are relevant to information exchanged across standardized interfaces defined in [ITU-T M.3010] TMN architecture. The protocol-neutral management information model should be used as the base for defining protocol-specific management information models, for example, CMISE information model and CORBA IDL interfaces.