Implementation of the CIM Policy Model using PONDER

New work on the Distributed Management Task Force's CIM Policy Model emphasizes the definition of general event-condition-action semantics. These semantics are conveyed in an abstracted fashion, independent of any policy language or implementation. This approach allows vendor flexibility in designing policy writing tools and in choosing policy languages and implementations. Also, it allows products to communicate their policy rules in an interoperable and semantically rich manner. This short paper overviews the CIM Policy Model's approach and how it maps, via an example, onto the PONDER policy language, developed at Imperial College, London.