Proposition of a network policy management ontology

The task of managing information technology resources becomes increasingly complex as managers must take heterogeneous systems, different networking technologies, and distributed applications into consideration. Policy-based networking (PBN) has emerged as a promising paradigm for configuration management and service provisioning. The Common Open Policy Service (COPS) and its extension for policy provisioning (COPS-PR) are currently being developed as the protocols to implement PBN. We propose a new approach for the definition of network policy management information in order to enhance its semantic expressiveness and facilitate its maintenance.