[IRTF-Announce] NMRG Report

Network Management Research Group Report
July and August 2006

NMRG report July 2006:

[1] A two hour meeting was held during the 66th IETF (Monday). The
     meeting focussed on work underway to collect SNMP traffic traces
     from several operational networks and to analyze these traces in
     order to find out (a) how SNMP technology is being used in
     operational networks and (b) what typical pattern of management
     operations are. Several tools, intermediate data formats, and
     anonymization functions have been developed to support the
     cooperation between the parties involved in this effort.

[2] It has been proposed to be organize a workshop to identify network
     management research challenges and to draft a kind of a research
     agenda in this area for the next ~5 years. This workshop will be
     organized jointly with EMANICS (a EU funded project on the
     Management of Internet Technologies and Complex Services) and
     will be collocated with the IEEE/IFIP International Week on
     Management of Networks and Services (MANWEEK) in October in
     Dublin, Ireland.

NMRG report August 2006:

[1] The organization of a workshop to identify network management
     research challenges and to draft a kind of a research agenda in
     this area for the next ~5 years has made progress. The workshop
     will take be hold on 19-20 October 2006 in Utrecht (Netherlands)
     and will be hosted by SURFnet (the Dutch research network
     operator). A call for participation has been circulated and the
     organizers are working to make sure that a balanced mixture of
     people with different backgrounds will be present.

[2] Additional network management traffic traces have been collected /
     made available. Work on analysis tools is ongoing and papers are
     being prepared with initial analysis results. The Internet-Draft
     which describes the approach and data exchange formats used is
     being updated as needed.

The URL for the workshop is:
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nmrg/meetings/2006/utrecht/

The URL for the NMRG is:
http://www.irtf.org/nmrg

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