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This module describes a YANG model for routing policy configuration. It is a limited subset of all of the policy configuration parameters available in the variety of vendor implementations, but supports widely used constructs for managing how routes are imported, exported, and modified across different routing protocols. This module is intended to be used in conjunction with routing protocol configuration models (e.g., BGP) defined in other modules. Route policy expression: Policies are expressed as a set of top-level policy definitions, each of which consists of a sequence of policy statements. Policy statements consist of simple condition-action tuples. Conditions may include mutiple match or comparison operations, and similarly actions may be multitude of changes to route attributes or a final disposition of accepting or rejecting the route. Route policy evaluation: Policy definitions are referenced in routing protocol configurations using import and export configuration statements. The arguments are members of an ordered list of named policy definitions which comprise a policy chain, and optionally, an explicit default policy action (i.e., reject or accept). Evaluation of each policy definition proceeds by evaluating its corresponding individual policy statements in order. When a condition statement in a policy statement is satisfied, the corresponding action statement is executed. If the action statement has either accept-route or reject-route actions, policy evaluation of the current policy definition stops, and no further policy definitions in the chain are evaluated. If the condition is not satisfied, then evaluation proceeds to the next policy statement. If none of the policy statement conditions are satisfied, then evaluation of the current policy definition stops, and the next policy definition in the chain is evaluated. When the end of the policy chain is reached, the default route disposition action is performed (i.e., reject-route unless an an alternate default action is specified for the chain). Policy 'subroutines' (or nested policies) are supported by allowing policy statement conditions to reference another policy definition which applies conditions and actions from the referenced policy before returning to the calling policy statement and resuming evaluation. If the called policy results in an accept-route (either explicit or by default), then the subroutine returns an effective true value to the calling policy. Similarly, a reject-route action returns false. If the subroutine returns true, the calling policy continues to evaluate the remaining conditions (using a modified route if the subroutine performed any changes to the route).