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Policy Core Information Model -- Version 1 Specification

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Network Working Group                                           B. Moore
Request for Comments: 3060                                           IBM
Category: Standards Track                                    E. Ellesson
                                                         LongBoard, Inc.
                                                            J. Strassner
                                                           A. Westerinen
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                           February 2001


        Policy Core Information Model -- Version 1 Specification

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 (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document presents the object-oriented information model for
   representing policy information developed jointly in the IETF Policy
   Framework WG and as extensions to the Common Information Model (CIM)
   activity in the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).  This model
   defines two hierarchies of object classes:  structural classes
   representing policy information and control of policies, and
   association classes that indicate how instances of the structural
   classes are related to each other. Subsequent documents will define
   mappings of this information model to various concrete
   implementations, for example, to a directory that uses LDAPv3 as its
   access protocol.

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction.................................................... 4
   2. Modeling Policies............................................... 5
      2.1. Policy Scope............................................... 8
      2.2. Declarative versus Procedural Model........................ 8
   3. Overview of the Policy Core Information Model.................. 10
   4. Inheritance Hierarchies for the Policy Core Information Model.. 13
      4.1. Implications of CIM Inheritance........................... 15
   5. Details of the Model........................................... 15



Moore, et al.               Standards Track
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