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policy based management framework that uses XML technologies to define and en-
code policies during their whole life cycle (from the definition to the enforcement).
The resulting XML-seamless policy based management framework shows an im-
provement in manageability, interoperability and extensibility over the PBNM archi-
tecture proposed by the IETF. Also security has been a priority during its design and
later implementation.
Acknowledgments
This work has been partially funded by the EU POSITIF (Policy-based Security Tools
and Framework) IST project (IST-2002-002314).
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