Policy-based network management (PBNM) uses policy-driven automation to manage complex enterprise and service provider networks. Such management is strongly supported by industry standards, state of the art technologies and vendor product offerings. We present a case for the use of PBNM and related technologies for end-to-end service delivery. We provide a definition of PBNM terms, a discussion of how such management should function and the current state of the industry. We include recommendations for continued work that would allow for PBNM to be put in place over the next five years in the unclassified environment.

Sandla is a multi rogram laboratory operated by2403 San Mateo NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 871 10 AbstractThe items discussed in this report reflect the work in progress during FY98.As a way to bootstrap the DISCOM' Distance Computing Program the SP2 Pilot Project was launched in March 1998. The Pilot was directed towards creating an environment to allow Sandia users to run their applications on the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative's (ASCI) Blue Pacific computation platform, the unclassified IBM SP2 platform at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The DISCOM' Pilot leverages the ASCI PSE (Problem Solving Environment) efforts in networking and services to baseline the performance of the current system. Efforts in the following areas of the pilot are documented applications, services, networking, visualization, and the system model. It details not only the running of two Sandia codes CTH and COYOTE on the Blue Pacific platform, but also the building of the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) proxy environment of the RS6000 platforms to support the Sandia users.