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SPPI - Access Clauses for COPS RPT accounting?




The SPPI does not define an access for enabling or reporting accounting
policies. These access definitions are needed to distinguish policies for
monitoring the policy usage from the policies used to determine enforcement.
For example, the policy for monitoring usage is enabled by the PDP with a
policy instance in the provisioning DECISION, and it would be useful to
identify this monitored usage Policy Class with an access of ENABLE. (As
proposed in draft-rawlins-acct-fr-pib-00.txt)

Likewise, the PEP then REPORTs the usage policy. It would be useful to
identify this access as REPORT. This distinguishes the access REPORT from
NOTIFY (for example, the NOTIFY classes are included in the REQUEST for
configuration. )

REPORT accounting type is a basic COPS operation. The definition (or
clarification) of associated SPPI access clauses is needed. These two
additional SPPI ACCESS clauses, (ENABLE, REPORT) seem useful. Comments?

-Diana