197 Copyright © 2010, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 9 Managing the Future Internet: Services, Policies and Peers Carlos Kamienski Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil Ramide Dantas Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Djamel Sadok Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Börje Ohlman Ericsson Research, Sweden INTRODUCTION Current trends in distributed processing need to cater for an Internet with a multitude of highly dynamic and heterogeneous contexts. Examples of these include emerging delay tolerant, Peer-to- Peer (P2P) and mobile networks. Support for new service models resulting from the composition of others is paramount for the design of next genera- tion networks (NGNs). Although current service AbsTRACT The authors use P2P communications for building a powerful service oriented architecture capable of orchestrating advanced services. Underlying mechanisms can be supported even when subject to the high churn of some of the P2P elements. This work proposes a management framework that ties together P2P and SOC technologies to reach new work scenarios for the future Internet. P2P nodes dynami- cally form networks to emulate the services offered by a traditional “dedicated” server. Such behavior of P2P-based services is highly dynamic and requires the use of a real-time control plane such as the one proposed in this chapter. The authors therefore argue that a policy based management middleware offers a good alternative for such endeavor. They recommend that emerging SOC/SOA development should consider the addition of a special intermediary component that transparently deals with highly dynamic P2P nodes and services as they expect these to become the rule rather than the exception in certain scenarios. Although not all the issues have been dealt with here in this chapter, it can certainly be seen as a step in the right direction. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-686-5.ch009