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COPS is a proposed standard protocol for exchanging network policy information between a policy decision point and policy enforcement points to allocate network traffic resources according to desired priorities of service. The policy decision point is typically a network server controlled by the administrator to determine which traffic types get highest priority, while policy enforcement points are routers or switches that implement the policies. COPS works with RSVP to allocate bandwidth priorities in advance for temporary high-bandwidth needs like video broadcasts. It allows routers and switches to check with the policy decision point on whether bandwidth reservation requests should be permitted.

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COPS is a proposed standard protocol for exchanging network policy information between a policy decision point and policy enforcement points to allocate network traffic resources according to desired priorities of service. The policy decision point is typically a network server controlled by the administrator to determine which traffic types get highest priority, while policy enforcement points are routers or switches that implement the policies. COPS works with RSVP to allocate bandwidth priorities in advance for temporary high-bandwidth needs like video broadcasts. It allows routers and switches to check with the policy decision point on whether bandwidth reservation requests should be permitted.

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COPS (Common Open Policy Service Protocol) is a proposed standard protocol for

exchanging network policy information between a policy decision point (PDP) in a


network and policy enforcement points (PEPs) as part of overall Quality of Service (QoS)
- the allocation of network traffic resources according to desired priorities of service. The
policy decision point might be a network server controlled directly by the network
administrator who enters policy statements about which kinds of traffic (voice, bulk data,
video, teleconferencing, and so forth) should get the highest priority. The policy
enforcement points might be routers or layer 3 switches that implement the policy
choices as traffic moves through the network. Currently, COPS is designed for use with
the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), which lets you allocate traffic priorities in
advance for temporary high-bandwidth requirements (for example, video broadcasts or
multicasts). It is possible that COPS will be extended to be a general policy
communications protocol.

In operation, RSVP makes two determinations when an RSVP request arrives at a router
or layer 3 switch. First, it determines whether there are enough resources to satisfy the
bandwidth reservation request. If there are, RSVP determines whether the user is
authorized to make the reservation. The first determination is known as the admission
control decision; the second is known as the policy control decision. COPS allows the
router or layer 3 switch to communicate with the policy decision point about whether the
request for the bandwidth reservation should be permitted. Without COPS, all resources
would be reserved on a first come-first served basis only, and one or more requesters
could easily take all the bandwidth.

The current COPS protocol is specified in an Internet-Draft working document of the


Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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