An Enhanced Policy Model to Enable Autonomic Communications

Abstract

The Policy Expert Group of the Autonomic Communications Forum is working to enhance policy to enable flexible control of self-governed systems. The initial effort focuses on proposed enhancements to the DEN-ng policy model to serve as a baseline from which the ACF Policy Model can be developed. This enhanced policy model incorporates traditional (event-condition-action) and deontic policy representations for policy rules, and provides a modular distributed structure for policy applications.