Policy Control (IP and ATM)
Version
1.0, Nov. 5th, 1998
Experiment leader
Victor Reijs, SURFnet bv, The Netherlands
Participants
BE, CH, ES, FR, IT, NL, ???
Goals
- study the relation of Policy Control protocols/servers with the IP services like
integrated and diffirentiated services
- study the relation of Policy Control protocols/servers on SVC provision in ATM
environment.
- test available implementations of Policy Control servers.
- evaluate the usefulness and provision aspects of Policy Control.
Description
As well as in the ATM as in the IP world, Policy Control is becoming important
because some users(groups) could have more rights in quality than other
users(groups). To
provide at a user(groups) level a policy, one also needs to have
identification of that user/group. Although this generic service
identification is not the issue in this activity, the relation must be studied though!
The Policy Control service that possible emerges from this activity, will be used in
the activities on intergrated and differentiated services and SVC services,
to control who/what gets which part of the (scarce) bandwidth. the bandwidth brokers model is also
are part
of this activity.
Pre-requisites
None
Dates and phases
- ongoing
study and influence the work on Policy Control
- 1Q - 3Q 1999
evalute products (servers) that are coming out for supporting
Policy Control
- 2Q - 3Q 1999
test Policy Control services in a national environment
- 4Q 1999
if tests are succesfull in national enviroment, a possible
test in the TF-TANT network enviroment will be scheduled.
Network infrastructure
Low speed (max. 1 Mbit/s, possibly over production IP network), because Policy Control will be
more a kind of signaling/control issue.
Local infrastructure
The generic service identification
will be handy to test WAN
Policy Controlled services.
Hard- and software
Hardware/software on routers and policy servers that will be able to do
policy based decisions. Also the generic service identification
is needed (but not tested).
Related work
- the TF-ATNT activities on integrated and differentiated services
- work done on identification issues
- IETF RAP
- Qbone projects
- ???
References
To be filled in
Last major content related changes: Nov. 5th, 1998