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Structure of Policy Provisioning Information (SPPI)

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Network Working Group                                      K. McCloghrie
Request for Comments: 3159                                       M. Fine
Category: Standards Track                                  Cisco Systems
                                                             J. Seligson
                                                                 K. Chan
                                                         Nortel Networks
                                                                 S. Hahn
                                                               R. Sahita
                                                                   Intel
                                                                A. Smith
                                                        Allegro Networks
                                                           F. Reichmeyer
                                                                     PFN
                                                             August 2001


          Structure of Policy Provisioning Information (SPPI)

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, the Structure of Policy Provisioning Information
   (SPPI), defines the adapted subset of SNMP's Structure of Management
   Information (SMI) used to write Policy Information Base (PIB)
   modules.

   RFC 2748 defines the COPS protocol, and RFC 2749 describes how the
   COPS protocol is used to provide for the outsourcing of policy
   decisions for RSVP.  Another usage of the COPS protocol, for the
   provisioning of policy, is introduced in RFC 3084.  In this
   provisioning model, the policy information is viewed as a collection
   of Provisioning Classes (PRCs) and Provisioning Instances (PRIs)
   residing in a virtual information store, termed the Policy
   Information Base (PIB).  Collections of related Provisioning Classes
   are defined in a PIB module.





McCloghrie, et al.          Standards Track
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