Indication of Authorized and Unauthorized PCC Rules

A network device for responding to a received set of policy and charging control (PCC) rules, the network device comprising:

• an interface that receives the set of PCC rules from a partner device;
• a roaming rules authorization module configured to:
• determine that the set of PCC rules includes an unauthorized PCC rule, wherein the unauthorized PCC rule fails an authorization, and
• determine that the set of PCC rules includes an authorized PCC rule, wherein the authorized PCC rule passes the authorization;
• and
• an error reporter configured to:
• generate an unauthorized rules list including an indication of the unauthorized PCC rule,
• generate an authorized rules list including an indication of the authorized PCC rule, and
• transmit the unauthorized rules list and the authorized rules list to the partner device via the interface.

A tangible and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution by a network device for responding to a received set of policy and charging control (PCC) rules, the method comprising:

• instructions for receiving the set of PCC rules at the network device from a partner device;
• instructions for determining that the set of PCC rules includes an unauthorized PCC rule, wherein the unauthorized PCC rule fails an authorization;
• instructions for determining that the set of PCC rules includes an authorized PCC rule, wherein the authorized PCC rule passes the authorization;
• instructions for generating an unauthorized rules list including an indication of the unauthorized PCC rule;
• instructions for generating an authorized rules list including an indication of the authorized PCC rule;
• instructions for transmitting the unauthorized rules list and the authorized rules list to the partner device.