Cisco is not currently accepting proposals for this RFP.
Project ID:
RFP-2007-022
Title:
Distributed Policy Execution
Summary:
Distributed policy is of particular interest because it can often achieve a degree of responsiveness, efficiency, and scalability that is hard to match using centralized or hierarchical policy management infrastructure. However, in today's networks, distributed policies are typically focused on addressing narrow problems within specific areas of technology and are implemented using a variety of incompatible models and platforms. There is very little convergence of distributed policy implementations on a single, standardized distributed policy definition model and platform.
The question is, can we gradually migrate distributed policies towards a new generation of distributed policy management platforms and tools that facilitate the creation of coherent, interoperable, and reusable distributed policy software.
Full Description:
Cisco is seeking research proposals that focus on the creation and standardization of a best of breed, distributed policy infrastructure which enables service policy abstraction and resource virtualization, without substantially degrading policy execution time.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed policy architectures, languages, execution platforms, and troubleshooting tools that support:
- distributed policy specification
- distributed policy domain modularization and integration
- service policy abstraction
- resource virtualization
- Execution feedback mechanisms for policy-aware systems
- Execution-time mechanisms for policy conflict detection, troubleshooting and resolution
- Policy data distribution and replication mechanisms enabling alternative policy designs, that take into account the frequency and volume of expected updates
Constraints and other information:
Cisco will grant ownership of all new intellectual property ("new IP") developed in this project to the successful proposer/university, in return for a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable license to use the new IP in its products, services and solutions. Cisco also anticipates that some results of this research may eventually be incorporated into open standards. Under such circumstances, Cisco expects the owner of the relevant new IP to make it available on a reasonable and non-discriminatory or royalty-free basis.
Proposal submission:
Cisco is not currently accepting proposals for this RFP.
Questions? Contact: research@cisco.com
