Re: COPS - Query PEP for policy detail?

["Rajiv Dighe" <rdighe@nortelnetworks.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rawlins, Diana" <Diana.Rawlins@wcom.com>
To: "'Durham, David'" <david.durham@intel.com>; <rap@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: COPS - Query PEP for policy detail?


>
> The PEP policy is controlled and installed/removed by the PDP. I don't see
a
> lot of value for the PDP "getting" the policy it installed back.
>

One benefit of this ability could be to add more value to synchronization.
Current Synchronization mechanism leaves a lot to be desired. essentially it
will just repeat past request that PEP had sent. this does not tell PDP
much. however ability to get list of installed policies could actually tell
PDP that even though it had sent policies p1 thru p11 to the PEP, PEP is
only reporting presence of p1 thru p9. It could also aid backup PDP in
determining what policies were downloaded by primary PDP before it went
down.

Regards,

--Rajiv