Management Research Position Statement David Harrington, Huawei I am an IETF-focused person, and I see a disconnect between the requirements of the telecomm industry, which is beginning to dominate the IP-based Internet, and the management protocols that exist in the IETF (e.g. SNMP) and are being developed in the IETF (e.g. Netconf). I think research needs to be done about how the IETF datacomm-based management approach needs to change to better accommodate the management of emerging networks and services that operate over the Internet. This would include inter-domain management, peer-to-peer sharing of mgmt info, and standardization of mgmt above the router/switch/device level. A second area of research is solution reuse (especially in the IETF). The use of reusable (standardized) components has been shown to be highly beneficial in equipment design and software development, reducing development costs and improving consistency across products and across vendors. But surprisingly, it is unclear whether component reuse is as beneficial during the process of developing standards in an organization like the IETF. The IETF is an engineering organization, and the problems of reuse in developing standards are not well understood. It would be appropriate for the NMRG, in particular, to analyze the issues involved and provide guidance to the IETF about the benefits and costs of trying to move to reusable components in the development of IETF management standards. Part of the research into reusable components should also consider whether moving to a component-based network management "architecure" or approach could better meet the emerging needs for services and multi-domain management. David Harrington dharrington@huawei.com dbharrington@comcast.net ietfdbh@comcast.net