orage networking and information management. It was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with regional affiliates around the globe. In addition to standards, SNIA also works on conducting events for developing and promoting technologies and educational services. The activities of SNIA are performed by its Technical Work Groups (TWGs). Standardizing Bodies One of the key specifications of SNIA in storage management is storage man- agement initiative specification (SMI-S). It offers methods that would facilitate interoperability and management of heterogeneous storage area network (SAN). The interoperable interface and messaging is achieved using XML on an object- oriented paradigm. Web site: www.snia.org 7.12 Conclusion This chapter provides an overview on some of the standardizing bodies in telecom management. Their structure and activities are touched upon to give basic famil- iarity about the organizations. There are many more organizations and alliance forums that work on developing standards in network management. DSL Forum, Optical Interworking Forum (OIF), and MultiService Switching Forum (MSF) are just a few names of the bodies that were not covered in this chapter. This chapter is intended to give the reader information on what forum to research when looking for a specific standard, to participate in developing standards on a specific domain, and to join a forum as a corporate or individual member. The orga- nization to look for is determined based on requirements. For example TMF would be a good place to look for telecom management standards as it mainly focuses on this area and the documents of the forum would have information on collaboration work with other forums. In the same way DMTF would be a good choice for enter- prise management and SNIA for storage area network management. Additional Reading 1. TMF 513 TR133 NGN-M Strategy Release 1.0 Version 1.2. www.tmforum.org (accessed December 2009). Chapter 8 MTNM Compliant EMS The NMS has to interact with multiple EMS a