CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
        1.1     Purpose of this Recommendation 
        1.2     Scope of this Recommendation    
 2     References
        2.1     Normative references       
        2.2     Informative References    
        2.3     Reference acquisition       
 3     Terms and definitions     
 4     Abbreviations, acronyms and conventions         
        4.1     Abbreviations and acronyms        
        4.2     Conventions         
 5     Background     
        5.1     Service goals       
        5.2     IPCablecom reference architecture          
        5.3     Components and interfaces           
        5.4     Components          
        5.5     Interface descriptions       
 6     Assumptions    
 7     Subscriber provisioning 
        7.1     Customer records (billing)           
        7.2     Equipment set-up and configuration         
        7.3     Static versus Dynamic Subscriber Provisioning Data      
 8     Requirements  
        8.1     General requirements       
        8.2     Transport requirements    
 9     Data model      
        9.1     Overview 
        9.2     Relations are encoded using the PcspRelation entity.XML encoding       
10     Messaging
       10.1     Overview
       10.2     CMS and PS messaging role requirements          
       10.3     WSDL specification        
11     Security   
Annex A – PCSP XML schema    
Appendix I – Sample entity encodings    
        I.1        PcspService object example      
        I.2        PcspEndpoint object example    
        I.3        PcspMta object example
        I.4        PcspCms object example
        I.5        PcspRelation example    
Appendix II – Sample object extension    
       II.1     Extended PcspService object example     
       II.2     The extension schema       
Appendix III – Data encoding evaluation    
      III.1     XML
      III.2     ASN.1/BER          
      III.3     Proprietary ASCII
      III.4     SDP (Session Description Protocol)        
      III.5     RADIUS
      III.6     SQL 
      III.7     Options summary  
      III.8     Recommendation: XML    
Appendix IV – Transport protocol evaluation    
       IV.1     TFTP with IPSec 
       IV.2     Batched RADIUS – Multiple records in single request via event messages        
       IV.3     Diameter  
       IV.4     Distributed object systems          
       IV.5     HTTP   
       IV.6     Options summary 
       IV.7     Recommendation: HTTP 1.1       
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