Consider a critical and immediate network communications need came  up, possibly spanning many service providers, and may be a life  threatening situation, but the network behaves much worse than any  other time over the last year. What are you able to do about it? Hans Werner Braun
	Grids are a  natural resource for disaster response, e.g. calculating the plume trace on a nuclear reactor after a terrorist event. However may lose connectivity to major Grid site due to, for example, mis-configured (malicious or inadvertent) routers, and lose critical time due to inability to spot or diagnose the problem.
	An open issue related to network management is helping users and others to identify and resolve problems in the network. If a user can't access a web page, it would be useful if the user could find out, easily, without having to run ping and traceroute, whether the problem was that the web server was down, that the network was partitioned due to a link failure, that there was heavy congestion along the path, that the DNS name couldn't be resolved, that the firewall prohibited the access, or something else. We encourage work on application of artificial intelligence (AI) or expert system techniques to network management systems.
		The end-to-end principle is the core architectural principle of the Internet.  … it addresses concerns of maintaining openness, increasing reliability and robustness, and preserving properties of user choice and ease of new service deployment (harder to change core than end nodes, e.g. difficulty of rolling out multicast in public service providers; Requiring someone with a new idea for a service to convince a bunch of ISPs to modify their networks is much more difficult than simply putting up a web page with some downloadable software implementing the service). Draft-iab-e2e-futures.txt