Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-rajan-policy-framework-00.txt

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 07:30:17 -0400

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	Title		: A Simple Framework and Architecture for Networking
                          Policy 
	Author(s)	: S.R. Rajan, Kamat
 	Filename	: draft-rajan-policy-framework-00.txt
	Pages		: 23
	Date		: 25-May-99
	
Many new protocols defined in the IETF have a regulatory
component, i.e., network administrators have to decide what
users, applications or hosts should have access to what
resources/services under what conditions.  Large-scale deployment of services using such protocols is critically dependent on the presence of a network-wide policy infrastructure that allows Internet Service Providers (ISPs)and corporate administrators to regulate the network rather than configure individual devices.  A key component of this
effort is to evolve standards-based means of representing and storing policy information in a unified manner, with a focus on schema for storing policy information in directories.  This document presents concepts, terminology,a policy framework and requirements for such a definition.

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