METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POLICY-BASED NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL WITH ARBITRARY NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL FRAMEWORKS

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POLICY-BASED NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL WITH ARBITRARY NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL FRAMEWORKS

A method and apparatus for integrating various network access control frameworks under the control of a single policy decision point (PDP). The apparatus supports pluggable protocol terminators to interface to any number of access protocols or backend support services. The apparatus contains Trust a...

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Zusammenfassung:A method and apparatus for integrating various network access control frameworks under the control of a single policy decision point (PDP). The apparatus supports pluggable protocol terminators to interface to any number of access protocols or backend support services. The apparatus contains Trust and Identity Mediators to mediate between the protocol terminators and a canonical policy subsystem, translating attributes between framework representations, and a canonical representation using extensible data-driven dictionaries.