This Recommendation addresses the management aspects of the components that provide the functions of managing and/or controlling the transport network resources. The concept whereby management and control functions are considered to be a continuum is known as the management-control continuum (MCC); i.e., it expresses the view that management and control functions are essentially the same and, thus, they can be grouped into one set of functions. This set of functions is collectively called management and control (MC) functions. A component that provides one or more MC functions is called an MC component.