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Subject: NMSIG-94/378 CNOM NEWS LETTER


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        CNOM NEWS LETTER (INCLUDES UPCOMING NM EVENTS)



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                          CNOM Newsletter
                          November 1, 1994

                      MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

CNOM was born in 1985, nine years ago, and thanks to the dedicated
efforts of many people it is now an important forum fostering
information interchange in the area of Network Operations and
Management.

In taking up the Chair of CNOM I feel honoured and indebted to the
previous people who directly contributed to its steering, to name
but a few of those I had the pleasure to work with: Salah Aidarous,
Ben Gotz, Alan Johnston, Ken Lutz, and, of course, the former
Chair, Doug Zuckerman. Doug is today refocussing his energies in
setting up the new committee on Enterpise Networking and that is
still very much tied to Network Management.

Somewhere I heard that INTERNET is so successful because it is not
"Managed". I guess this follows from the world-wide reaching creed
that whatever is regulated sooner or later (sooner, sooner!) gets
bad. Bureaucracy is often evoked whenever we mention "Managing".
Actually my feeling, of course I am biased, is different. Today we
are witnessing a paradigm shift in management: from a concept of
hierarchies and regulated communications where all equipment and
services (software) are nicely placed, we are gradually moving to
"conscious" elements (software) that are able to understand their
environment and enrich it with their presence (Intelligent Agents).
Management means being part of this holistic, ever growing, and
changing, network. In this sense INTERNET is indeed managed, be it
through MOSAIC or  any other pieces dispersed in the network. Is
management then going to be only a software issue?  My definition
of "Mnagement" is "any form of supervision and control involving
Man, and I think it still holds. There is a lot of talking on
Busness Process Re-engineering, BPR, and this is already having a
rofound effect on the way we are looking at Network Operationsand
Management and on the way we are implementing it.  The "Man"
("Person") is key in the BPR; Intelligent Agents do need somebody
to stuff them with Intelligence in the first place and someone who
will evolve an overall architecture where Intelligece may manifest
itself. Management is becoming a wider concept and it will be more
so in the future especially encompassing the Users.

The "Man" factor is also key for CNOM working and effectiveness: I
am looking forward to an exchange of ideas, how to make something
which is already good even better.  CNOM is getting more and more
"global". We have an Italian as Chair, a Brazilian as Vice Chair
(Bruno Vianna) - the election took place before the soccer world
championship (if not, results might have been different!), a
Canadian as Secretary (Dale Armor) and an American as Technical
Program Chair (Veli Sahin).

Coming up we have GLOBECOM '94 in San Francisco. There we are
planning to meet on Wednesday November 30 from 5 to 7pm; if you are
around please join in.  As usual we will also meet at ICC '95 in
Seattle in June. I'll let you know the exact date.

In May 1995, 1st to 5th, we will have the International Symposium
on Integrated Network Management (ISINM '95) conference in Santa
Barbara, California which promises to be a most exciting event with
technical sessions and expo.

We are already in the detailed planning stage for NOMS '96 which,
for the first time will be held outside of North America in the
wonderful city of Kyoto, Japan, April 16-20, 1996 (cherry
blossoms!). Spread the word around and make sure to plan on being
there. We are looking into clustering other important events around
this one so that people may kill two (or more) birds with one
stone.

Always remember to spread the word. If you happen to know anyone
working on Network Operations and Management (or on the user side)
who are not (shame on them) a member of CNOM let them know how to
join in: it is easy! All they have to do is to send their names and
contact information to our Membership Chair, Cengiz Akgun -
Bellcore Room 4B-937, 444 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Phone +1
908 699 8336, Fax [phone], E-mail [e-mail].

I welcome your suggestions: you can reach me via e-mail at
[e-mail] or by phone [phone], fax +39
11 2285865.
                                                    Roberto Saracco
                                                         Chair CNOM


              MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR (DEJA VU)

As you already know, Roberto  Saracco  has  been  elected  our  new
Chair.  It was my privilege to have nominated him for the position.
One of the benefits of  no  longer  being  "the  Chair,"  or  so  I
thought, was that I would not have to write any more "Messages" for
the CNOM News. Wrong!  One of Roberto's first acts was to ask me to
write  something  for  this issue.  So here we are with yet another
message (deja vu).

I want to thank all of you  for  the  enthusiastic  support  you've
provided  over  the first nine years of CNOM's life.  For those who
may be too young to remember, it took a lot  of  effort  to  create
this  committee.   The  seeds of CNOM were sown in the early 1980s,
when Ben Gotz, Ken Lutz  and  I  began  organizing  a  few  ad  hoc
technical  sessions  at each ICC or GLOBECOM, under the sponsorship
of  other  friendly  technical  committees  such  as  the  ones  on
Transmission Systems and on Communications Switching.  At about the
same time, Bruce Kieburtz had started to refocus his  efforts  away
from a very broad "networking council" to something more tangible -
a committee on network operations and management.  Ben, Ken  and  I
teamed  up  with  Bruce (thus forming "the Four Z's") and through a
lot of politicking and presentations on the merits of forming a new
committee,  CNOM  was endorsed by the Technical Affairs Council and
officially  created  by  the  Board  of  Governors.   This  was   a
substantial  achievement  because at the time a prevailing attitude
was that the  already  existing  Communications  Society  technical
committees  (about  15)  could  cover  any  past, present or future
topics in the area of  communications,  and  would  be  diluted  by
creation of any new technical committees.  In fact, time has proven
the opposite; CNOM  has  enthusiastically  teamed  with  the  other
technical  committees  in conference and publication activities and
actually enriched the coverage of technical subjects to  include  a
network   operations  and  management  perspective.   We  have  all
benefited and CNOM is now viewed  as  one  of  the  most  important
technical committees in the Communications Society.

Though I have handed the reigns  over  to  Roberto,  I  will  still
continue being active in CNOM, and have the official title of "NOMS
Standing Committee Chair."  The NOMS Standing Committee will do the
planning  for  future  Network  Operations and Management Symposia,
provide guidance to the organizers of the current NOMS, and  assure
continuity from one to the next.

Are you interested in even more deja  vu?   If  so,  then  consider
this:  at  ICC  '94  I  proposed a new cross-disciplinary technical
committee  on  Enterprise  Networking,  it  was  endorsed  by   the
Technical  Affairs  Council, created by the Board of Governors, and
I'm now its first chair!  The full slate is:

Chair:  Doug  Zuckerman,  AT&T  Bell  Labs  Vice  Chair:  Branislav
Meandzija,  MetaAccess  Technical  Program  Chair:  Bob  Fike,  RNF
Systems Secretary: Karen Seo, BBN Systems and Technology

The focus of  this  committee  will  be  to  provide  a  forum  for
discussion   of   the  issues  and  technologies  relevant  to  the
communications   and   computing   infrastructures   used    within
organizations   --   business,   government,  academic,  etc.   The
increasing need to effectively share  distributed  information  and
computing  resources  and  to  coordinate  the activities of people
spread out over wide geographic  distances  has  made  this  a  key
problem   area.   This  new  technical  committee  will  provide  a
systems-oriented focus on technical activities that complements and
integrates  the  work  of a number of discipline-oriented technical
committees within the  IEEE  Communications  Society.   Of  course,
network  operations  and  management  is  a  key element in overall
enterprise networking.

If you are interested in participating, please send a note with the
words  "IEEE Committee on Enterprise Networking," your name, postal
address, email address, telephone and fax to Karen Seo, BBN STD, 10
Moulton  Street,  Cambridge, MA 02138, USA (fax: [phone] or
Email (INTERNET): [e-mail] )

You will then be added to our membership list and the general email
exploder for this committee (if you include your email address).

If you are at GLOBECOM '94 in San Francisco, please join us at  the
Enterprise   Networking   committee's  first  meeting  on  Tuesday,
November 29 from 5:00-7:00 P.M.  We do not know the room assignment
yet,  but  it  will  be  listed  on the IEEE Communications Society
meetings list available in the conference registration area.

I look forward to continued collaboration in our  CNOM,  Enterprise
Networking, and Communications Society activities!

                                                     Doug Zuckerman
               Chair - Technical Committee on Enterprise Networking



                TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPORT
                            Veli Sahin

I will be serving as CNOM technical program chair for the next  two
years.  This  is my first report to you. On behalf of CNOM, I thank
the previous technical program chair, Salah Aidarous for helping me
to  get  started  and  a well done job during his term. I also need
your support and active participation.  I  am  looking  forward  to
working with all of you.

Every day, network operations  and  management  are  becaming  more
important   than   before.   Therefore,   the   need   for  greater
participation in CNOM activities is increasing. We encourage you to
serve on program committees, chair/organize sessions, submit/review
papers, give tutorials, etc. If you  would  like  to  help,  please
contact:  Dr.  Veli  Sahin,  NEC America, Inc., Mail Stop: VA-4520,
14040 Park Center Road, Herndon, VA 22071 (Phone: [phone],
Fax: [phone], Email: [e-mail]).

GENERAL CNOM ACTIVITIES

NOMS: Network Operations and Management Symposium is  sponsored  by
CNOM  with  cosponsorship  by  IFIP  Working  Group 6.6 and held in
even-numbered years.
ICC and GLOBECOM: CNOM participates in these annual conferences  by
organizing sessions, tutorials and workshops.

ISINM:  International  Symposium  on   Integrated   Management   is
sponsored  by IFIP Working Group 6.6 with cosponsorship by CNOM and
held in odd-numbered years.

CNOM also prepares special issues of Communications Magazine,  IEEE
Network,  Journal  on  Selected Areas in Telecommunications and the
Transactions  on  Communications.   Archival  papers   on   network
operations  and  management are also contributed on a regular basis
to the Transactions on Networking.

UPCOMING CNOM ACTIVITIES

GLOBECOM '94 will be held in San Francisco, California on  November
28   -   December   2,   1994.  Contact  Dr.  Christian  Rad  (CNOM
Representative), AT&T Bell Laboratories, Room  3K-367,  200  Laurel
Avenue  S, Middletown, NJ 07748, USA, Tel: [phone], Fax: +1
908 957 7500, Email: [e-mail]

ISINM '95: (CNOM Representative: Ken Lutz) IFIP Working  Group  6.6
on  Network Management for Communication Networks and IEEE CNOM are
continuing  preparations  for  ISINM  '95.   The  Fourth  IFIP/IEEE
International  Symposium  on  Integrated  Network Management, ISINM
'95, will take place May 1-5, 1995 in Santa Barbara, California  at
the Red Lion Inn.

ISINM '95 will build on the success of three  previous  ISINM's  in
forming  the  central  technical  exchange  forum for the research,
standards,  development,  systems  integrator,  vendor   and   user
community  of network management. This premier symposium will focus
on overall management  solutions  across  all  types  of  networks,
enterprise communication systems, distributed computing systems and
applications.  The overall program will include technical sessions,
tutorials,  poster  displays,  "birds-of-a-feather" open discussion
groups, and technical demonstrations.  People who register early by
April  1  will  save  money,  and those who register super-early by
December 15 will in addition receive a special  gift.  For  further
information  and  a  registration  form, contact: Mary Olson, ISINM
'95,  P.O.   Box   22605,   Santa   Barbara,   CA   93101,   Email:
[e-mail], Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone].

ICC '95 will be held in Seattle Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA on June
18-21,   1995.   Contact:   Myron  Allen,  CNOM  Technical  Program
Representative, Northern Telecom, Inc., Dept. 8459, 4001 E.  Chapel
Hill-Nelson  Hwy,  Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.  Phone: +1 919
992 2362, Fax: [phone].  Email: [e-mail]

CNOM is proposing three hot topics:
 -   Advanced Service Management
 -   Managing Converging Technologies, and
 - Managing new infrastructures (e.g., ATM, SONET, PCN, VoD, etc.)

DSOM '95: The Sixth  IFIP/IEEE  Workshop  on  Distributed  Systems:
Operations and Management, DSOM '95, will be held in Ottawa, Canada
in  October  1995.  Contact:  Dr.  Salah  Aidarous,   Bell-Northern
Research,  3500  Carling  Ave.,  P.O.  Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa,
Ontario K1Y 4H7, Canada, Phone: [phone]  Fax:  [phone]
4873, Email: [e-mail]

GLOBECOM '95 (CNOM Technical Program Representative: Dr. Douglas N.
Zuckerman):  GLOBECOM  '95  will be held on November 13-17, 1995 in
Singapore. CNOM is proposing two hot topics:
 - Distributed Network and Systems Management
   (Ken Lutz, Organizer)
 - Personal Communications Services (PCS)
   Management (Roberto Saracco, Organizer)
In addition, we are proposing tutorials on:
 - "Network Management Standards, Technology
   and Evolution," by Salah Aidarous, and
 - "Telecommunications Management Networks
   (TMN) Standards, Implementations, and
   Applications" by Veli Sahin.

Additional CNOM-sponsored sessions  will  be  formed  largely  from
papers  submitted  in  response  to  the  open Call for Papers (see
August 1994 IEEE  Communications  Magazine).   Papers  are  due  by
February 28, 1995.

NOMS '96: Prepare now for NOMS '96 in Kyoto, Japan! NOMS '96 is the
fifth  biennial  symposium  on  Network  Operations and Management,
organized in collaboration with IEEE CNOM and  IFIP  Working  Group
6.6 on Network Management. Following the success of NOMS '94, which
was held in Orlando during the  week  of  February  14-17,  we  are
beginning  to  plan  for NOMS '96 in Kyoto the week of April 16-19,
1996.

For the first time, NOMS is being held outside the  United  States.
There  is  a  high  level of interest and enthusiasm in taking this
international  conference  to  Japan   and   giving   it   a   real
international  flavor.  NOMS '96 promises to further build upon the
successful relationship with IFIP  Working  Group  6.6  on  Network
Management  in  tying  together  telecommunication,  computing  and
networking.

The conference will feature  a  world  class  program  of  renowned
keynote   speakers,   state-of-the-art   tutorials,   high  quality
technical  sessions  addressing  important  technologies  that  are
influencing  the  current  operational  environment and shaping the
future of the industry, and panel session providing a "vision" into
the    future.    Trips    and    visits    to    telecommunication
industries/organizations in the area will also be organized.

Plan on participating in this unique conference to explore the fast
pace developments and exploding markets in Asia-Pacific. We hope to
see you there.

For further information, contact:

Mr. Masayoshi Ejiri, General Co-Chair NTT,  1-6  Uchisaiwai-cho  40
Sylvan  Road,  1-Chome Chiyoda-ku MS 45, Tokyo 100-19 Japan, Phone:
[phone], Fax: [phone], Email: [e-mail]

Dr. Shri K. Goyal, General Co-Chair, GTE  Laboratories,  40  Sylvan
Road,  MS45, Waltham, MA 02254, Phone: [phone], Fax: +1 617
466 2960, Email: [e-mail]

Mr. Hugh Dysart, TPC Co-Chair, Bell-Northern Research, 3500 Carling
Avenue,  P.O.  Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1Y 4H7,
Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone], Email: [e-mail]

Mr. Satoshi Hasegawa, TPC Co-Chair, NEC Corporation, 2nd  Lab,  C&C
Prod.  Tech.  Res.  Labs,  1753 Shimonumabe, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki,
Kanagawa 211, Japan, Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

ICC '96 will be held on June 24-27, 1996 in Dallas, TX. If you  are
interested  in  serving as CNOM's technical program representative,
please contact Veli Sahin.

GLOBECOM '96 (CNOM Technical Program Representative: Dr.  Christian
Rad)

GLOBECOM '97 (CNOM Technical Program Representative: Dr. Douglas N.
Zuckerman)