Management Research Position Statement

			 Dan Romascanu, Avaya

Background:

- Area Director, IETF Operations and Management Area

- Software Engineer, R&D Team and Project Leader, Systems Architect at
  LANNET, Madge Networks, Lucent and Avaya (current employer)

- Participant, editor, and working group chair in various IETF Network
  Management activities, author and co-author of several IETF MIB and
  management related documents

- Participant in management related standards development in the IEEE,
  TIA and MEF

- Designer and software developer for various management products
  including embedded device agents, management applications and
  management protocols implementations

Interest and contribution in the NMPR meeting dedicated to Future
Direction of Network and Service Management Research:

- represent and present the position of the IETF Operations and
  Management area

- present proposals related to future protocols, data models and
  applications research as perceived in the IETF operations and
  management space

- present issues related to the collaboration and relationship between
  the work in the IETF, NMRG and other Standards Development
  Organizations

- present ideas and provide inputs related to management of specific
  areas of technology and expertise (configuration protocols and data
  models, performance monitoring, VoIP and real-time applications)