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Subject: Added Effective date/time to provisoining policy proposal


I forgot I had intended to provide support for an effective date/time
for a set of policies. The idea is that a set of policies can be marked
as taking effect at a future date time such as at midnight. The policies
can be distributed in advance and the PDP will continue to us the
current set of policies until the effective date/time arrives. A set of
polices with no effective date/time would default to go into effect
immediately.

For the Push Protocol, this simply requires adding an effective
date/time element to the batch.

For the Pull protocol, an effective date/time can be added to the policy
list response from the PAP. However, the use of this feature depends of
the PDP initiating the protocol in time to get the set of policies
before the effective date/time.

I have made the changes in the wiki to add this feature.

Hal


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