Professional organizations Name of organization Description COMSOC The IEEE Communications Society The CNOM Web Committee on Network Operation and Management.

	Research groups of the IRTF Name of organization Description Network management The Network Management Research Group (NMRG) provides a forum for researchers to explore new technologies for the management of the Internet. In particular, the NMRG will work on solutions for problems that are not yet considered well understood enough for engineering work within the IETF. Services management This group investigates frameworks that are able to support a rich variety of resources while also encompassing the existing solutions to make use of the installed base. For instance, a goal would be to be able to manage a PDA, a desktop PC, a firewall router, and an enterprise's electronic mail service within the same framework and preferably with the same tool(s).

	Companies Name of company Description Bell Laboratories The goal of the Network and Service Management (NSM) research department at Bell Labs is to provide conceptual clarity to the structure of network management problems and build next generation NSM tools.

	Universities Cntry Name of university Description DE Technical University of Aachen Communication and distributed systems GR National Technical University of Athens The Network Management and Optimal Design Laboratory GR National Technical University of Athens The Telecommunications Laboratory IL Hebrew University, Jarusalem Distributed System and Network Management DE University of Munich (LMU) Munich Network Management Team DE Technical University Braunschweig Distributed Systems and Network Management USA University of Buffalo Network Management Site USA Columbia University Distributed Computing and Communications DE University of Hagen Verteilte Systeme FR INRIA - Nancy Olivier Festor - MADYNES DE University of Karlsruhe Cooperation and management SW Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne The Telecommunications Services Group UK University College London The OSIMIS Project ES Technical University of Madrid The Department of Telematic Systems Engineering DE Technical University of Munich The WIssensbasiertes Lan-MAnagement Group CA Carleton University Ottawa The Network management Lab UK University of Surrey Networks Research Group NL Technical University of Twente The Network Management Group USA University of Delaware Network Management Laboratory