CNOM/IFIP WG6.6 Joint Meeting @IM 2017 was held in 17:30-18:30, May 10, 2017 at Altis Grand Hotel, in Lisbon, Portgual. The summary of the meeting will be posted later.

Result of CNOM officers election:
Chair: Filip De Turck (Ghent U)
Vice Chair: Laurent Ciavaglia (Nokia)
Program Chair: Carol Fung (Virginia Commonwealth U)
Secretary: Carlos Raniery Paula dos Santos (UFSM)

List of Attendees:

Burkhard Stiller (UZH)
Masayoshi Ejiri
Tobias Hoßfeld (U Duisburg-Essen)
Carlos Raniery Paula dos Santos (UFSM)
Marc-Oliver Pahl (TUM)
Remi Badonnel (INRIA)
Guillaume Doyen (UTT)
Doug Zuckerman (Vencore Labs)
Malte Burkert (U Dortmund)
Edmundo Madeira (U Campinas)
Steven Latre (U Antwerp)
Marinos Charalambides (UCL)
Tiago Cruz (U Coimbra)
Paulo Simões (U Coimbra)
Yixin Diao (IBM Research)
Metin Feridun (IBM Research)
Peng Yu (BUPT)
Vitor Graveto (U Coimbra)
Michael Scharf (Nokia)
Jose-Marcos Nogueira (UFMS)
Vaibhav Bajpai (TU Munich)
Shingo Ata (Osaka City U)
Deep Medhi (UMKC)
Y. Chandramouli (Cisco)
Alexander Clemm (Huawei)
Laurent Ciavaglia (Nokia)
Roberto Riggio (CREATE-NET)
Ying Wang (BUPT)
Alberto Schaeffer-Filho (UFRGS)
Filip De Turck (U Ghent)
Jorge Proença (U Coimbra)
Jérôme François (INRIA)
Isabelle Chrisment (INRIA)
Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs)
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS)
Carol Fung (Virginia Commonwealth U)
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (UFRGS)
Giovane Moura (SIDN Labs)
John Keeney (Ericcson)

CNOM/IFIP WG6.6 Joint Meeting @CNSM 2016 was held in 16:30-17:15, Nov 2, 2016 at École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Montreal, Canada. The summary of the meeting is as follows.

• Olivier (IFIP WG6.6 Chair) and Lisandro (CNOM Chair) chaired the meeting.
• Introduction of IFIP WG6.6 and CNOM are presented by chairs.
• TNSM report: Rolf (TNSM EiC) reported the statistics of TNSM submissions and requested to encourage submissions from CNOM community. Rolf also mentioned that many TNSM papers are extended versions of previous IM/NOMS conferences.
• Commag/JNSM report: Olivier encouraged to submit papers especially to special issues.
• IJNM report: Filip (IJNM Assoc. EiC) introduced that the IF of IJNM is increasing, and three special issues are running. Filip also introduced that IJNM has virtual issues which are available via open access.
• Upcoming conferences (Olivier): no comments.
• Observing the history of IM/NOMS: Lisandro introduced the purpose and the current status. The system is planned to be available at IM 2017.
• CNOM/IFIP WG 6.6 Taxonomy: Filip introduced that the taxonomy is available on the Wikipedia page, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_and_service_management_taxonomy.

List of attendees:
Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia U.)
Sebastian Abt (h_da)
Roberto Riggio (CREATE-NET)
Xavier de Foy (InterDigital)
Carol Fung (Virginia Common Wealth U.)
Doriguzzi Corin Roberto (CREATE-NET)
Jaafar Bendriss (Orange Labs.)
James Hong (POSTECH)
Yooneon Han (POSTECH)
Kim Khoa Nguyen (ETS)
Mohamed Fafen Zhani (ETS)
Mohamed Cheriet (ETS)
Noura Limam (U. Waterloo)
Raouf Boutaba (U. Waterloo)
Filip De Turck (Ghent U.)
Remi Badonnel (Telecom Nancy – LORIA/INRIA)
Yu Peng (BUPT)
Edmundo Madeira (U. Campinas)
Paulo Simoes (U. Coimbra)
Rashid Mijumbi (TSSG)
Lei Shi (TSSG)
Yonsa Njah (ETS)
Laurent Lefeure (INRIA)
Adel El-Atawy (Google)
Hanan Lutfiyya (U. Western Ontario)
Shingo Ata (Osaka City U.)
Yoshiaki Tanaka (Waseda U.)
Rolf Standler (KTH)
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS)
Olivier Festor (LORIA/INRIA)

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to join the next Joint CNOM/IFIP WG6.6 meeting @CNSM 2016 next week in Montreal.
The meeting is scheduled on Wednesday November 2nd @ 16:30 (local time) in Room A-1582.

The meeting is open to everyone and is a great opportunity to stay informed of and get involved in the events and activities of our Network and Service Management community.

We look forward to seeing you both @ CNSM and the Joint CNOM IFIP Meeting.

Best Regards,

Lisandro, Filip, Deep, Shingo
(CNOM officers)

CNOM/IFIP WG6.6 Joint Meeting @NOMS 2016 was held in 17:30-18:30, April 26, 2016 at Istanbul Technical University, Suleyman Demirel Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey. The summary of the meeting is as follows.

List of attendees:
Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs.)
Nadjib Aitsaadi (UPEC)
Marcus Brunner (Swisscom)
Rémi Badonnel (LORIA/INRIA)
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS)
Marc-Oliver Pahl (Tech. U. Munich)
Aiko Pras (U. Twente)
Burkhard Stiller (UZH)
Rolf Standler (KTH)
Baliosian Javier (Udelar)
Yixin Diao (IBM Research)
Brendan Jennings (WIT)
Mehmet Ulema (Manhattan)
Raouf Boutaba (U. Waterloo)
Paulo Simoes (U. Coimbra)
Luciano Gaspary (UFRGS)
Masayoshi Ejiri
Jose Marcos Nogueira (UFMG)
Giovane Moura (TU Delft)
Alberto Schaeffer-Filho (UFRGS)
Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster U.)
Liam Fallon (Ericsson)
Clarissa Marquezan (Huawei)
John Keeney (Ericsson)

We kindly invite all of you to two CNOM/IFIPWG6.6-related meetings:

1. a meeting on the update of Network and Service Management taxonomy: the results of the questionnaire will be discussed and a proposal for the updated taxonomy will be presented and discussed with all participants
Time: Monday, November, 9th, 17:00 – 18:30
Location: Room Master @ CNSM 2015

2. a joint CNOM/IFIP WG6.6 meeting with the following agenda:
– Overview of our journals (+special issues) + conferences + workshops
– TNSM indexed in Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports.
– Questionnaire results + taxonomy update
– Open Digital Library
– Introduction of Test-of-time award
– Idea to organize ‘Industry-oriented special section’ in journal
Time: Wednesday, November, 11th, 17:00 – 18:00
Location: Room Master @ CNSM 2015

CNOM/IFIP WG6.6 Joint Meeting @IM 2015 was held in 18:00-19:00, May 12, 2015 at Shaw Centre, Ottawa, Canada. The summary of the meeting is as follows.

• Burkhard Stiller mentioned that currently IFIP has two mailing lists but they can be merged into a single ML, merged address will be announced.
• Rolf Stadler reported TNSM statistics and requested to increase the ratio of submission from CNOM community.
• Burchard and Lisandro reported the status of ComMag and JNSM/IJNM respectively.
• Statistics on CNOM/IFIP supported conferences are reported.
  • IM 2015 had a good number of paper submissions. Firstly made open access via IFIP DL.
  • CNSM 2015 is now in cooperation with ACM
  • AIMS 2015: best papers are recommended to TNSM.
• Update of Taxonomy: Purpose and method are explained by Filip. The updated taxonomy will be discussed at CNSM 2015.
• Next joint meeting will be held during CNSM 2015.

After the meeting, CNOM Elections were held. The result of elections was following.

• Chair: Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil (re-elected)
• Vice-chair: Filip De Turck – Ghent University, Belgium
• TPC chair: Deep Medhi – University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), USA
• Secretary: Shingo Ata – Osaka City University, Japan  (re-elected)

List of attendees:

Kathy Grise (IEEE Big Data Initiative)
Doug Zuckerman (Telecordia)
Jorge Lobo (ICREA)
Emil Lupu (ICL)
Edmundo Madeira (U. Campinas)
Alberto Gonzalez Prieto (Cisco)
Rich Hofstede (U. Twente)
Ricardo Schmidt (U. Twente)
Mottis Joker (U. Twente)
Alex Clemm (Cisco)
Amitana Biswas (Cisco)
Metin Feridun (IBM Research)
Mechael Nicld (IBM Research)
Raouf Boutaba (U. Waterloo)
Luciano Gaspary (UFRGS)
Filip De Turck (Ghent U.)
Shingo Ata (Osaka City U.)
Burkhard Stiller (UZH)
Rolf Standler (KTH)
Yixin Diao (IBM Research)
Andre Santos (UFPR)
James Hong (POSTECH)
Brendan Jennings (WIT)
Mauro Tortonesi (U. Ferrara)
Sven van der Meer (Ericsson)
Daniel Mauro (UFPR)
Michele Nogueira (UFPR)
Pieter Jan Maenhaut (Ghent U.)
Maxim Claevs (Ghent U.)
Niels Booten (Ghent U.)
Hendrix Moens (Ghent U.)
Steven Latre (U. Antwerp)
Stefano Petrangeli (Ghent U.)
Thomas Vanhove (Ghent U.)
Jordan van der Hooft (Ghent U.)
Matthias Strobbe (Ghent U.)
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS)

CNOM Meeting at Austin, December 9, 2014
Meeting slides

Starting time: 14.10 hours – after awaiting more attendance

Attendees:
Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira, Doug Zuckerman, Bridget Erlikh, Linda
Dadjo, Pascal Lorenz, Burkhard Stiller (chair)

Minutes taken by Michele.

– CNOM recertification report
* Collaborations with TC
o Suggestions: try collaboration even with other ComSoc TCs such as
security, ad hoc and sensor networks
o Collaborations can be understood as organizing special sessions
together with other TCs, special editions on journals from the
specific TCs
o It needs to be determined more precisely what “collaboration”
between TCs will or have to mean, technical overlaps are needed
to be defined, and possible “representatives” from each TC can
be delegated to the other TCs, too
o CNOM is asked to determine “strategic” domains in which such a
collaboration shall be foreseen and in which it can generate the
largest impact (in terms of which measurements to be defined)

– Distinguished lecturer (DL)
* CNOM officers are asked to send an email to attendees determining
the requirements, restrictions in order to determine DLs
* CNOM officers shall motivate people of the community to offer
their expertise and who are willing to apply
* CNOM officer could provide directions about the DL’s content,
which has to be related to CNOM in terms of expertise, strategic
CNOM plans.

– IEEE fellows from CNOM
* Distinguished lectures could promote such a nomination
* CNOM officers to lobby with the IEEE Fellow Selection Committee
* CNOM officers to argue with ComSoc president to see CNOM expertise
being reflected in next IEEE Fellow Selection Committee
* Joint agreement of people in the room on the need to have more
CNOM expertise in IEEE Fellows for the near future
* Involve other experts to promote talking with them and motivating
nominations
o It is necessary to know about the clear set of criteria employed
to evaluate nominations
o Attract “wireless” experts, who run management tasks in many
pieces of their work, but don’t call it that way, they tend to
even not know about those related management approaches
o E.g., 5G network management is of high value for commercial
operations, practitioners, and operators

– Test of time award
* Well received
* Proposal: the winner of such an award could be asked to present
his/her work again, and add the current views and prospects to it

– Journals
* TNSM: it is recommended to add to those slides the number of
submissions
* ComMag: no comments
* JNSM: no comments
* IJNM: no comments
* The note and plan of EiCs of those journals to reduce the time of
feedback of a review addresses the community and the reviewers, too

– Conferences
* It recommended to include the regional conferences, too
o APNOMS: is it organized every year? When next?
o LANOMS: is it organized every 2 years? Next?

– All other business (AOB)
* “First time attendees” were marked on their badges at GLOBECOM
This is recommended for IM/NOMS, too, including a special event
or session/information being organized at these events, introducing
CNOM, the conference, and relevant community information
o Bridget acknowledged that this type of information is available
for IM/NOMS registrations, ribbons could be used, too
o CNOM officers are asked to communicate those ideas to the
respective conferences’ general chairs for consideration
* A request was made, why operators, ISPs, and commercial interests
in management cannot be dealt by today’s tools, as such the
involvement of industrial perspectives and their demand needs to
be clarified
o The discussion revealed that such problems of “federations” did
exist in the 80s already in the management domain, but they have
not been solved. The term “federation” determines the newer facet
of such cross-border/network-domain needs
o It was suggested to plan for an “Industrial Panel” with GLOBECOM,
or any other CNOM conference, to discuss why until now the
management community could not solve the problem of
interoperability among management tools. A symposium on management
issues could be suggested for the next GLOBECOM instances

Ending time: 15.00 hours

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CNOM Meeting at Austin, December 9, 2014

Starting time: 14.10 hours – after awaiting more attendance

Attendees:
Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira, Doug Zuckerman, Bridget Erlikh, Linda
Dadjo, Pascal Lorenz, Burkhard Stiller

– CNOM recertification report
* Collaborations with TC
o Suggestions: try collaboration even with other ComSoc TCs such as
security, ad hoc and sensor networks
o Collaborations can be understood as organizing special sessions
together with other TCs, special editions on journals from the
specific TCs
o It needs to be determined more precisely what “collaboration”
between TCs will or have to mean, technical overlaps are needed
to be defined, and possible “representatives” from each TC can
be delegated to the other TCs, too
o CNOM is asked to determine “strategic” domains in which such a
collaboration shall be foreseen and in which it can generate the
largest impact (in terms of which measurements to be defined)

– Distinguished lecturer (DL)
* CNOM officers are asked to send an email to attendees determining
the requirements, restrictions in order to determine DLs
* CNOM officers shall motivate people of the community to offer
their expertise and who are willing to apply
* CNOM officer could provide directions about the DL’s content,
which has to be related to CNOM in terms of expertise, strategic
CNOM plans.

– IEEE fellows from CNOM
* Distinguished lectures could promote such a nomination
* CNOM officers to lobby with the IEEE Fellow Selection Committee
* CNOM officers to argue with ComSoc president to see CNOM expertise
being reflected in next IEEE Fellow Selection Committee
* Joint agreement of people in the room on the need to have more
CNOM expertise in IEEE Fellows for the near future
* Involve other experts to promote talking with them and motivating
nominations
o It is necessary to know about the clear set of criteria employed
to evaluate nominations
o Attract “wireless” experts, who run management tasks in many
pieces of their work, but don’t call it that way, they tend to
even not know about those related management approaches
o E.g., 5G network management is of high value for commercial
operations, practitioners, and operators

– Test of time award
* Well received
* Proposal: the winner of such an award could be asked to present
his/her work again, and add the current views and prospects to it

– Journals
* TNSM: it is recommended to add to those slides the number of
submissions
* ComMag: no comments
* JNSM: no comments
* IJNM: no comments
* The note and plan of EiCs of those journals to reduce the time of
feedback of a review addresses the community and the reviewers, too

– Conferences
* It recommended to include the regional conferences, too
o APNOMS: is it organized every year? When next?
o LANOMS: is it organized every 2 years? Next?

– All other business (AOB)
* “First time attendees” were marked on their badges at GLOBECOM
This is recommended for IM/NOMS, too, including a special event
or session/information being organized at these events, introducing
CNOM, the conference, and relevant community information
o Bridget acknowledged that this type of information is available
for IM/NOMS registrations, ribbons could be used, too
o CNOM officers are asked to communicate those ideas to the
respective conferences’ general chairs for consideration
* A request was made, why operators, ISPs, and commercial interests
in management cannot be dealt by today’s tools, as such the
involvement of industrial perspectives and their demand needs to
be clarified
o The discussion revealed that such problems of “federations” did
exist in the 80s already in the management domain, but they have
not been solved. The term “federation” determines the newer facet
of such cross-border/network-domain needs
o It was suggested to plan for an “Industrial Panel” with GLOBECOM,
or any other CNOM conference, to discuss why until now the
management community could not solve the problem of
interoperability among management tools. A symposium on management
issues could be suggested for the next GLOBECOM instances

Ending time: 15.00 hours