This talk will consist of two parts.

1. Overview of the IETF. This part of the talk will explain what the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is, how it is organized, how it works, and how you can participate. It will explain the various types of RFCs (Request For Comments) as you see them published by the RFC-Editor. It will also explain how the work in the IETF is distributed between various focused Areas and how the Working Groups are chartered to work on a specifci topic of Internet Technology.
2. Overview of current Network Management activities in the IETF. This part will list the activities in the Operations and Management Area in the IETF and it will highlight the current Network Management Standards and the ongoing work in the Network management space.

• The different technologies for future telecommunication networks : from IP networks to GMPLS.
• The strong evolution of Ethernet networks towards MAN and WAN, and the expansion of Ethernet virtual private networks.
• The revolution in wireless networks with Wimedia, Wi-Fi, WiMax, Wi-Mobile, and Wi-RAN, and the integration in the future IP wireless networks.
• The massive arrival of sensor networks and the evolution of network architecture.
• The new techniques for the control of QoS and security.
• The new concepts and paradigms : autonomic networking, intelligent networking,
• The evolution of the local loop, triple play, very-high speed, Ethernet-based.
• The orientations for 2020 and the future replacement of the TCP/IP architecture.

    Pragmatically, a network can be labeled autonomic when it provides inherent functionalities which lead to self-organization, self-management, self-diagnoses, and self-repairs. These self-X features also imply that nodes can self-associate to the network without user intervention, and that applications self-discover available network resources and services. On the other hand many of the above properties can be seen in environments where the semantics and the mechanisms of a network architecture have been localized and optimized to the requirements of its application domain.
     It is imperative to make most of the management mechanisms distributed, autonomic, and situated-aware, so that management actions can be timely and reliable. In addition, these autonomic mechanisms will enable providers to maintain and manage their networks and the services supported by them. The mechanisms should rely on an intelligent monitoring system while their logic must be faultless accounting for a variety of conditions.
    This talk will give an overview of various approaches to autonomic networking and autonomic network and service management including some work from NEC Network Laboratories and European projects in that area.

    Analyzing vulnerabilities that allow worms to hijack the control flow is a very critical task in detecting and responding to large scale Internet-based security attacks. For the same vulnerability (or the same set of vulnerabilities), multiple different polymorphic or metamorphic exploits can be developed (or twisted) to counter the effectiveness of many "exploit-driven" protection solutions. In fact, several of the previous proposed solutions are unlikely to survive simply because the "focus" of the solutions is on "exploits". In this talk, we will present the "Epsilon-Gamma-Pi" model as a powerful tool in analyzing zero-day vulnerabilities. Our model has been realized as the Minos/DACODA honeypot, which has been ruunning in several months and catching/analyzing real attacks with claimed (or theoretically) zero-false positive, even for zero-day control flow hijack vulnerabilities.

    Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing reduces, in some cases even eliminates, the need for a user application to rely on pre-determined servers. The P2P paradigm is hence a powerful means for deploying distributed applications and overlay networks. Because of their inherent ability to support distributed computation, process off-loading and resource sharing, P2P systems are gaining significant momentum. Appealing properties include scalability, robustness and fault-tolerance.
   P2P systems complement extremely well their client-server counterparts while a wealth of new P2P applications is further revolutionising the web. This talk revisits P2P, taking the network operator’s viewpoint. We shall tackle the controversial issues and threats that P2P poses to the operator: does P2P enable operator bypass? Is it a hopeless, disruptive technology? We’ll then displace some myths surrounding P2P, speculating on how it may present an unprecedented opportunity to the operator.