This Recommendation outlines general considerations and guiding principles for charging and international accounting for traffic and facilities used to support services that utilize intelligent networking (IN) capabilities.

These principles are intended to provide a basis for treating IN-supported service elements that may be common to a number of services (see Annexes A to C). These guidelines may provide a useful basis on which bilateral and multilateral negotiations can take place, for example when developing or revising tariff and accounting provisions dealing with specific services, for more customized services and/or in advance of the availability of service specific Recommendations.

It should be understood that, while some IN-supported service elements may be common to a number of services, each service must determine both the applicability and the handling of each of these elements on an individual basis.