Re: gpsPolicyGroup class in qos info model

[Mahadevan Iyer <iyermahadevan@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- John Strassner <jstrassn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think I understand in principle what you want to
> do, but
> just to be clear, is this a fair description:
> 
>   you want to be able to trim a tree of policy
>   information from consideration to be evaluated
>   efficiently; therefore, you want to add a
>   condition clause, defined by the admin, on a
>   high-level container, to do this
> 

This is correct.

> Assuming that this is correct, you still haven't
> addressed
> how you accommodate decision strategy and nested
> rules. In
> other words, are you proposing that you construct
> these new
> trimming rules INDEPENDENTLY of the actual structure
> of the
> rules below that containment point (e.g., taking
> into
> account their individual decision strategies,
> priorities,
> etc.)? How can you be sure that you are capturing
> the
> semantics and maintaining the correct execution
> order by
> your newly defined trimming rules?

This is the responsibility of the policy
administrator.
The exact same responsibility exists when creating
PolicyRuleInPolicyRule trees.
Isn't this true ?

Regards



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