!!! Overview[1]
[{$pagename}] is described in [RFC 3084] and describes the use of the [Common Open Policy Service] ([COPS]) protocol for support of policy provisioning ([COPS-PR]).  

The specification is independent of the type of policy being provisioned (QoS, Security, etc.) but focuses on the mechanisms and conventions used to communicate provisioned information between [PDP]s and [PEP]s.

The [protocol] extensions described in this document do not make any assumptions about the policy data model being communicated, but describe the message formats and objects that carry the modeled [policy] data.

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* [#1] - [summarizing-pki-certificate-validation|http://..../|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2013-04-10