161. This area is taken to mean the exchange of management information and services between systems in order to permit remote management or the management of several systems as a single whole.^[6]

162. With an ever-increasing level of integration between NATO and national CIS, system management responsibility is one of the few remaining criteria by which system boundaries are drawn. Strong control and management of a system is a prerequisite to the implementation of an effective security policy, which will also limit the degree to which management control can be federated amongst allies and coalition partners.