Policy Activity: A Historical Perspective
Policy work in the industry has been occurring in various consortia and standards bodies through the years. The first use of the term policy in the context of IP networks was for specifying routing policies in the Internet. The Internet is composed of many subnetworks, each independently administered by various ISPs and interconnected via various exchange points. A scheme for describing what types of packets each ISP would accept for forwarding was needed at the exchange points. This led to the specification of routing policies and a language for specifying routing policies. This work is described further in Chapter 10.
Although the routing policies fall within the purview of policy as I have defined ...
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