Report,edited by Paul Brusil: The Networked Planet: Management Beyond 2000—A Report on NOMS 2000

The Seventh IEEE/ IFIP 2000 Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2000, http:/ / www.noms.org/ 2000) was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 10–14, 2000. This premier symposium continues the highly-regarded series sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society Committee on Network Operations and Management and the IFIP Working Group 6.6 on Network Management. The symposium was attended by more than 500 participants from around the world. The theme for NOMS 2000 was “The Networked Planet: Management Beyond 2000” focusing on the central role that integrated management plays in worldwide information networking. Such a theme is not surprising in these post Millennium days as we celebrate the Internet and all the technologies that cluster around it. These are creating new logically layered worlds and value propositions for individuals and businesses spanning the entire network and information technology continuum. The state-of-the-art from academic and industry research as well as the state-of-the-market show much creative push on all fronts in meeting the new operations and management challenges: integrated management of the many logical and physical connectivity layers that span our entire networked planet. The NOMS 2000 Technical Program Committee (TPC) followed through on this theme by assembling a technical program that focused on current driving forces for integrated management and globalization: