Dinesh C. Verma is Manager of the Enterprise Networking Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds more than ten patents in the area of computer networking. A widely published expert in the field, Dr. Verma is the author of Policy-Based Networking: Architecture and Algorithms and Supporting Service Level Agreements on IP Networks. He is also an active member of the IETF and the ATM Forum.