Patent attributes
An integrated control device, to implement automatic address assignment in a path spanning two or more administrative domains, and to implement communication between a plurality of administrative domains, acquires definition information that defines protocols used in each administrative domain from an inter-administrative domain communication protocol stack list table, acquires available addresses of each protocol in each administrative domain which can be used for communication between the respective administrative domains from an available address range table, acquires a communication route from a starting point administrative domain to an ending point administrative domain, specifies domains that use the respective protocols on the communication route by using the definition information, assigns protocol information such as available addresses of each protocol between the specified domains by using an available address range table and notifies the assigned address to each domain.
