Subject: Draft-ietf-policy-qos-device-info-model will be available 3/23 am

From: "John Strassner" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:14:48 -0800

Policy Enthusiasts,

a new version of what used to be

  draft-weiss-policy-device-qos-model

will be available at ftpeng.cisco.com/johns (hopefully by
the morning of 3/23). The new filename is:

  draft-ietf-policy-qos-device-info-model-00.txt

This draft incorporates comments and suggestions from the
last meeting of the Policy Framework wg plus some new
material. It has attempted to reconcile the DiffServ
conceptual model, the DiffServ MIB, and the DiffServ PIB.
The abstract is:

The purpose of this draft is to define an information model
that describes the QoS capabilities of different devices.
These capabilities define the attributes common to the
classification, conditioning, queuing, and forwarding
characteristics of network devices running
Differentiated Services QoS as well as (in the future)
RSVP.

This draft is intended to be used with the QoS Policy
Information Model [QOSPIM] to model how policies can be
defined to manage and configure the QoS mechanisms (e.g.,
the classification, marking, metering, dropping, queuing,
and scheduling capabilities) of devices. Together,
these two drafts describe how to write QoS policy rules to
configure and manage the QoS mechanisms of devices.

This draft, as well as [QOSPIM], are information models.
That is, they represent information independent of binding
to a specific type of repository. A second draft
[QCAPSCH] will be written to provide a mapping of the
data contained in this document to a form suitable for
implementation in a directory that uses (L)DAP as its
access protocol.

This draft is similarly paired with the draft specified
in [QOSSCH], which describes a mapping of the data in
[QOSPIM] to a form suitable for implementation in a
directory that uses (L)DAP as its access protocol.
These two drafts then describe how to write QoS policy
rules that can be used to store information in
directories that can be used to configure device
QoS mechanisms.

Happy reading.

regards,
John