[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] IFIP NET MGMT SYMPOSIUM

pjb@MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG (Brusil) (03/22/89)

	ADVANCE PROGRAM SUMMARY & REGISTRATION INFO

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** FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT **
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Improving Global Communication Through Network Management
May 14-17, 1989
The Westin Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

Sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing
(IFIP)
Hosted by The MITRE Corporation and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology


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			*    OVERVIEW    *
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This symposium, a unique combination of high-level technical sessions
and presentations by industry-leading vendors, will:

	o  familiarize professionals from diverse network management
	   backgrounds with the goals, current priorities, and plans of the 
	   many worldwide activities focusing on network management

	o  promote detailed technological interchanges

	o  create a forum for discussion and coordination of the complex
	   advanced research and development needed to define the network
	   management standards of the future

	o  provide a framework to feed back insight about current
	   implementations to standards developers

	o  stimulate cooperative international efforts in various areas of
	   network management


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	* TECHNICAL TRACKS (two parallel tracks on May 15 & 17; *
	* three parallel tracks on May 16)                      *
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1.Heterogeneous Network Management -- Invited Speaker: Carl Sunshine (UNISYS)
	Session 1A: Enterprise Management
	Panel 1B: Experience with Network Management

2.Integration Through Standards -- Invited Speaker: Yoshikazu Kobayashi (IBM)
	Session 2A: Business Requirements
	Session 2B: Technical Requirements 

3. Management Information and Functions -- Inivted Speaker: Jeremy
   Tucker (Logica)
	Session 3A: Management Information
	Session 3B: Performance Management and Modeling
	Session 3C: Security and Dialogue Management

4. Design and Modeling -- Invited Speaker: Lev Feldkuhn (Bell Atlantic)
	Session 4A: Design Approaches
	Session 4B: Fault Management
	Panel 4C: Network Management: Which Model to Choose?

5. Management Architectures -- Invited Speaker: Phillip Enslow
   (Georgia Inst Technology)
	Session 5A: Telecommunication Architectures
	Session 5B: Multimedia Integration
	Session 5C: LAN Management

6. Distributed Systems Management -- Invited Speaker: Morris Sloman
   (Imperial College)
	Session 6A: International Cooperation
	Session 6B: Implementation and Language Issues

7. Artificial Intelligence in Network Management -- Invited Speaker:
   Rodney Goodman (Cal Tech)
	Session 7A: Expert Tools for Network Management
	Panel 7B: Intelligent Network Management


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	* TUTORIALS (five parallel sessions on May 14) *
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 Management Standards - Current Status of Work in ISO -- Chris Sluman,
 Jeremy Tucker, and Tony Jeffree

 Tools for the Performance and Fault Management of Local and Wide Area
 Networks -- Belinda Yung-Rubke

 Recent Developments in Integrated Network Security -- Harold Podell
 and Marshall Abrams

 Comparative Analysis of Existing Network Management Systems -- James
 Herman

 Management of Manufacturing Networks -- Juan Pimentel


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		* FEATURED SPEAKERS  *
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Vinton Cerf, Vice President, Corporation for National Research
Initiatives

John Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S.
Congress

Lt. Gen. John Myers, Director, Defense Communications Agency

John Crecine, President, Georgia Institute of Technology


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	* VENDOR PRESENTATIONS - CORPORATE PATRONS *
	* (4 vendors/day; 30 min plenary 	   *
	* presentations each; single day suite for *
	* each)					   *
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Atlantic Research Corporation
Avant-Garde Computing, Inc.
Boeing Computer Services, Inc.
Codex Corporation
Data General Corporation
Digital Communications Associates, Inc.
Digital Equipment Corporation
International Business Machines Corporation
MCI Telecommunications, Inc.
NYNEX Information Systems Group
OSI/NM Forum
Wang Laboratories, Inc.


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	*     REGISTRATION FEES      *
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TECHNICAL PROGRAM: 

Full registration (received before April 14, 1989):  $595
	(includes technical and vendor sessions, three breakfasts, 
	 two luncheons, three receptions, one banquet, the Omni Theater 
	 social event, and one copy of the proceedings)
Full registration (received after April 14, 1989): $695

TUTORIAL PROGRAM:

Tutorial registration (received before April 14, 1989): $200
	(includes admission to one tutorial, plus that tutorial's
	 handouts)
Tutorial registration (received after April 14, 1989): $300

Copies of Tutorial Materials: $25 for each tutorial; $100 for all tutorials


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		* FURTHER INFORMATION  *
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For a copy of the advance program, contact:  Hershey Young, IFIP
Symposium, c/o National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bldg.
225, Room B217, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; (301) 975-5267