CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
        1.1     Purpose of this Recommendation   
        1.2     Scope of this Recommendation      
        1.3     Requirements         
 2     References 
        2.1     Normative references         
        2.2     Reference acquisition         
 3     Terms and definitions       
 4     Abbreviations   
 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    
Annex B – WSDL specification for PCSP messaging    
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        
Appendix V – Bibliography