Today, I learned that I am holding together with four other nice guys a US patent called Methods and Apparatus for Managing Middleware Service in a Distributed System (US Patent 6,789,114, issued September 7th 2004). I was involved in this patent application during my stay at Bell Labs in 1997 and it was just today that I learned that this patent was finally posted in 2004. I should probably go and check my bank accounts now… And yes, please make heavy use of this patent!
The Integrated Security Model for SNMP working group of the IETF started a working group last call on the core documents. The last call runs until August 10th. Please read the documents and provide feedback to the ISMS mailing list.
After running the 1st International Summer School on Network and Service Management (ISSNSM 2007) at Jacobs University, I went to the University of Twente to attend the EUNICE 2007 summer school. I liked both events and I think they did nicely complement each other. I can only recommend that PhD students attend such events; they are a nice place to establish contacts, to share insights and learn, and to share experiences (the good and the bad) with fellow PhD students. Given the positive feedback about these events, I assume that both continue next year; so watch out for the call for papers and participation.
The EMANICS project sponsored AIMS 2007 (Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security) conference is currently taking place in Oslo and I enjoy its interactive nature. Oslo is a great city to travel to during the summer and I particularly liked the bus trip from the Oslo Torp airport along a very beautiful scenery.
The 1st International Summer School on Network and Service Management is taking place at Jacobs University on July 9-13, 2007. This event primarily targets PhD. students working in the area of network and service management and combines class room lectures with hands on lab sessions. The courses and lab sessions are organized by well-known instructors who are technology experts, open source developers, and familiar with operational networks. The event is sponsored by EMANICS. Make sure to register early as the number of participants is limited.
On April 27, I organized an SNMP trace analysis meeting which was hosted at Jacobs University. The meeting, which was part of the EMANICS project, was attended by 10 people from Jacobs University, the University of Twente, and INRIA.
I am organizing a Dagstuhl seminar on “Autonomic Management of Networks and Services” together with Marcus Brunner (NEC C&C Research, Germany), Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada), and Rolf Stadler (KTH, Sweden). This seminar runs back-to-back with another Dagstuhl seminar of a similar topic: “Resilient and Survivable Networks, Infrastructures and Services”. I have never been in Dagstuhl before, but so far I only heard very positive reports about Dagstuhl events…
I have been at the 68th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Prague where we also had the 22nd meeting of the Network Management Research Group (NMRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). I took the train to Prague, which turned out to be rather time consuming on my way towards Prague, but the trip back home went well. Prague is always a nice city to visit, I enjoyed the atmosphere.