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The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol

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Network Working Group                                     D. Durham, Ed.
Request for Comments: 2748                                         Intel
Category: Standards Track                                       J. Boyle
                                                                 Level 3
                                                                R. Cohen
                                                                   Cisco
                                                               S. Herzog
                                                               IPHighway
                                                                R. Rajan
                                                                    AT&T
                                                               A. Sastry
                                                                   Cisco
                                                            January 2000


             The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol


Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000).  All Rights Reserved.

Conventions used in this document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED",  "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC-2119].

Abstract

   This document describes a simple client/server model for supporting
   policy control over QoS signaling protocols. The model does not make
   any assumptions about the methods of the policy server, but is based
   on the server returning decisions to policy requests. The model is
   designed to be extensible so that other kinds of policy clients may
   be supported in the future. However, this document makes no claims
   that it is the only or the preferred approach for enforcing future
   types of policies.





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