Policy Based Management for Internet Communities
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K. Feeney, D. Lewis, V. Wade `Policy Based Management for Internet Communities? in 5th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2004), New York, USA, 8-9 June 2004, IEEE Press, pp 23 - 34Download Item:
Abstract:
Policy Based Management (PBM) is a research topic
that has been driven by the tremendous complexity
inherent in the administration and management of
present-day networking and telecommunications systems
and services. The increasingly diverse organisational
forms of modern industry represent a significant
component of this complexity. Internet communities offer
extreme examples of organisational diversity, since they
often lack any central authority and many subsections
operate with almost complete autonomy. This paper
argues that PBM systems offer great potential in this
domain due to the complexity of management
arrangements. However, since these communities lack
any single trusted administrative hierarchy, a centralised
solution to policy engineering and management is not
possible. This paper proposes an approach to modelling
communities for PBM systems. This approach focuses on
the concept of communities within a hierarchy of
authority as the fundamental unit of organisational
analysis. As such, the model reflects the distribution of
authority in the real-world community, the resulting
policies reflect the community's operational needs and
contracts between the various groups and individuals
that make up the community. Policy conflicts are used to
identify organisational conflicts that must be resolved. In
order to illustrate and validate these concepts, the paper
presents a conceptual architecture and case study based
on the secure management of an open publishing
network.
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