Development of Policy Decision Points for Policy-Based Networking: Issues and a Framework

The development of PDPs is a hard task because currently there is not a widely accepted set of protocols to implement the communication between PDPs and other elements of the PBNM solutions. This paper presents a framework to support the development of PDPs in order to easy the time spent in coding new ones. The framework is based on the IETF approach for policies, which helps in the dissemination of the IETF view of policies.