VoIP Management - Does the Emperor have any clothes on? Intro by Aiko Pras (University of Twente). Recordings of the Distinguished Experts Panel (DEP) at the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), which was held April 3-7, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada. VoIP Management - Does the Emperor have any clothes on? The rapid growth of VoIP is watched by traditional operators with some concern. In the past a major share of their income came from the POTS and the intriguing question is whether they will be able to keep these revenues now that the transition to VoIP is taking place. Compared to new competitors such as Skype, traditional operators have the advantage that they can manage the entire VoIP service, including the QoS of the underlying IP network. The question to be discussed in this Distinguished Experts Panel is whether this advantage is real, or an illusion. Will it be possible, or necessary, to guarantee 99.999% availability? Should QoS be managed at the network level, or is user perceived QoS primarily determined by the choice of (wideband) codec? Does good VoIP quality imply that the home network should be managed? In short: what are the management challenges of VoIP, or are there none?