Patent 7801149 was granted and assigned to Juniper Networks on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques are described in which intermediate policy information is used to translate policy information between forwarding domains. For example, a network device comprises a control unit that associates intermediate policy information, such as intermediate CoS information, with a packet. The network device utilizes the intermediate CoS information to indirectly map first class of service (CoS) information that conforms with a first protocol to second CoS information that conforms to a second protocol. The network device may, for example, apply a first policy to map the first CoS information to the intermediate CoS information and a second policy to map the intermediate CoS information to the second CoS information.