| 摘要 |
An architecture and methods for policy management and distribution in a communications network is presented. Policy manager, policy server, and policy-managed client devices used in provisioning a distributed service are adapted to employ messaging servers between policy managers and policy servers, as well between policy servers and policy-managed client devices. Messaging servers provision publish/subscribe interfaces to each policy manager, policy server, and policy-managed client device. The advantages derived by employing publish/subscribe messaging to inter-work the elements include: publish/subscribe mechanism-based notifications and processing directions dissemination, repository transparency, separation of functionality across policy managers and policy servers, and independence between policy and static device, user and service profiles.
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