== VENDORS (room 10) ==

Claudio Bartolini [V]
Petre Dini [V]
Liam Fallon [V]
Dan Romascanu [V]
David Harrington [V]
Giorgio Nunzi [V]
Bert Wijnen [V]
Jurgen Schonwalder [R]

== Questions ==

[V1] Is research still needed on new technologies to transport
     management information, or can we rely on generic protocols and
     middleware technologies (such as Corba, Java, Web Services etc)
     to transfer such information. If research is still needed, what
     are the specific problems these new technologies have to solve?

[V2] Is research still needed on languages for data models and/or
     information models, or research on core data / information models?
     If yes, what are the specific problems that need to be solved?

[V3] Is the current approach where devices have hundreds of MIB
     modules and many thousands of MIB objects, the right one, or do
     we need something else? If yes, which approaches are considered
     promising (programmable devices, high-level network element
     management functions integrated on devices, document-oriented
     approaches, ...)?

[V4] What is needed to make a system manageable? What is in particular
     difficult or expensive from a device / system vendor point of
     view?

[V5] How do you monitor research and capitalize research results?

[V6] Is probabilistic management feasible?

[V7] What SLA related research is needed? Do we need them and for what?

[V8] What are the three most important research questions to be
     addressed in the next five years from a vendor perspective?