Alpha

The alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first, and it is not thoroughly developed and tested by the membership. It, therefore, may contain serious errors, and if it is code or an API, it may result in instability or could cause crashes or data loss. Future releases may change significantly and may not be backward compatible. Any TM Forum assets in the Alpha stage will be viewed in draft form and may not contain all of the planned features or content for the final version. An alpha asset is designed to gather industry feedback and will be taken through to the Beta stage for further testing and validation. 

An alpha asset, at a minimum, is team approved and will only need member input of 5 members.