Policy-Based Networking: Architecture and Algorithms

Chapter 4. Technology Support for Business Needs

In Chapter 3, "The Generic Provisioning Problem," we looked at the business needs and configuration information of different network environments. The business needs of the network environment drive the high-level policies in the environment, and the configuration information drives the low-level policies within the environment. We also looked at the structure of a generic policy management tool which can be used to translate the high-level policies into low-level policies.

Figure 3.1 showed the policy application matrix, which demonstrated the different business needs along the vertical axes and the different technologies along the horizontal axes. Chapter 3 discussed the appropriate policy specification ...