The mechanisms are transparent and the interface by which the policy is specified is simple to understand and administer. The mechanisms represent the technology while the policies represent the presentation of that technology in an implementation-neutral fashion to the system administrator who must describe how the data is to be managed. Policy management is adaptive in both a static and dynamic way. This is termed static because it occurs once at definition time. Conflicts are recognized at the time they occur and conflicting selections are prevented.
Mechanisms implement policy.
Mechanisms work together as a cohesive unit by sharing and operating on common metadata, either locally or distributed across the network. Auspex is currently early in the prototyping and development phase and expects to have concrete findings and conclusions with respect to the implementation within the next six months.