P4-REQ-21-7-005

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The Phase 0 Implementation Profile / PSM SHALL define Policy and Release Plane realization for policy decisions, release packages, release obligations, and authorized oversight consumption.

Part 4, Section 21.7: Runtime Plane Realization Requirements.

The Policy and Release Plane separates governed release decisions and external release concerns from internal Data Plane availability.

Defining a Phase 0 realization preserves this distinction and provides implementation support for policy decisions, release packages, obligations, and authorized oversight consumption without treating later distributed policy capabilities as part of the Phase 0 baseline.

This requirement applies to:

• policy decision exchanges;
• release package exchanges;
• release obligations;
• authorized oversight consumption; and
• applicable implementation participants and QoS profiles.

Verification SHALL confirm that the Phase 0 Implementation Profile / PSM defines a Policy and Release Plane realization for the specified concerns.

Verification activities should include review checks confirming that:

• policy decisions are represented;
• release packages are represented;
• release obligations are represented where applicable;
• authorized oversight consumption is distinguishable from internal Data Plane access; and
• Phase 0 does not implicitly require later-phase distributed policy capabilities.

This requirement establishes the Phase 0 realization of the FX Logical Policy and Release Plane.

Related requirement identifiers:

• P4-REQ-21-7-001
• P4-REQ-21-7-007
• P4-REQ-21-7-008

Related source section:

• 21.7 Runtime Plane Realization Requirements

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