Re: [nmrg] Planning the next NMRG meetings for 2015

["Papadimitriou, Dimitri (Dimitri)" <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

I would like to see the list extended to the following topics:

o) information/content networks management 

o) move beyond spatio-temporal analysis of traffic flows and consider structure and semantic analysis of information flows

o) cooperative/agent-based management 

More generally, it seems advisable to keep a more technology-independent approach, for instance instead of targeting "NFV" or similar, focus on function placement problems, functional-abstraction and network-function driven management.

Concerning meeting venues: my preference goes to keep balance between number of meetings organized during IETF (2) and conferences (2), thus both IM and CNSM but it could be also valuable to consider instead a conference which has a more specific scope (related to the topic of the NMRG meeting).

Thanks,
-dimitri.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nmrg [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Lisandro
> Zambenedetti Granville
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 5:17 PM
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> Subject: [nmrg] Planning the next NMRG meetings for 2015
> 
> Dear NMRG subscribers
> 
> Back in 2011, we run a poll on this list to collect your feedback  in
> regard to topics that NMRG could focus on. At that point, the use of
> autonomic computing for network management revealed to be an often
> mentioned topic. From that point and on, we organized some meetings on
> autonomics for management that ultimately resulted in some I-D proposals,
> a BoF in the last IETF meeting, and the ANIMA initiative.
> 
> We’ve also been running a series of successful workshops “on the usages of
> NetFlow/IPFIX in Network management”, the last one being held in Berlim
> during IETF 87. A next workshop is planned for the NMRG meeting in the
> upcoming IETF 93 in Prague. Some other topic-specific meetings have been
> also organized, such as “lossy and low power networks management” (27th
> NMRG meeting during IETF 81 in Quebec), "Management Aspects of Emerging
> Networking Paradigms” (29th NMRG meeting during IETF 86 in Orlando), and
> the “1st Workshop on Large Scale Network Measurements” (31st NMRG meeting
> during CNSM 2013 in Zurich).
> 
> In order to bring more transparency and planning for the upcoming meeting
> in 2015 (thanks Juergen Schoenwaelder for comments on this regard in the
> list), we would like to share with you our initial thoughts, re-run the
> poll we mentioned in the beginning of this message, and collect your
> feedback for the NMRG next steps. We would like to organize in 2015 four
> NMRG meeting: 3 meetings during IETFs, in addition to an interim meeting
> together with IM or CNSM 2015, if the conference calendar allows that. As
> such, the upcoming meetings would be, in principle:
> 
> NMRG meeting during IETF 92, Dallas, Mar. 2015
> - Topic: TBD
> 
> NMRG meeting during IETF 93, Prague, Jul. 2015
> - Topic: Together with the Flamingo FP7 project, we scheduled another
> edition of the flow-based measurement workshop. Since the last workshop in
> this series happened in Berlim Aug. 2013, we believe Jul. 2015 would be a
> good moment for another issue.
> 
> NMRG meeting during IETF 94, Yokohama, Nov. 2015
> - Topic: TBD
> 
> NMRG (interim) meeting, occasionally together with IM 2015 (May 2015,
> Ottawa) or CNSM 2015 (possibly Oct./Nov. 2015, TBD)
> - Topic: TBD
> 
> NMRG meetings don’t need to have specific topics. The 35th meeting in Rio
> will not be centered on a single topic (call for contributions will be
> distributed in the next message). Still, having a set of main topics would
> certainly guide better the work developed under the NMRG belt. As
> mentioned above, we would like to hear the feedback of NMRG subscribers on
> topics that you believe should be addressed. As a reference and starting
> point for another poll, please observe below the list of topics (arbitrary
> order) considered back in 2011.
> 
> a) Management of the Internet of Things
> b) Autonomics management / network learning
> c) Network-wide safe configuration
> d) Energy monitoring and management
> e) Network flow measurement and analysis
> f) Large-scale network-wide measurements
> g) Management of virtual machines and clouds
> 
> Considering the above, we would like to ask you the following questions:
> 
> 1) For the interim meeting, what seems more adequate for your personal
> calendar, i.e., IM or CNSM? We’ll try to accommodate the 2015 interim
> meeting in a moment that more people could potentially attend.
> 
> 2) Would you include additional topics to the list above? Which ones? Some
> “modern” topics may be already covered with a slight different phrasing.
> For example, management of NFV would fall under item g) above or require a
> specific topic.
> 
> 3) Do you have interest in any of these topics? If so, in which order?
> 
> We’ll appreciate if you could reply these questions. That would give us
> important information for the next steps of NMRG.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Olivier and Lisandro
> NMRG Co-Chairs
> 
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