(cisco, or any) acl *reducers* out there?

[cat at reptiles.org (Cat Okita)]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, George Michaelson wrote:
> I have been looking at acl management s/w in the freecode space and I can find lots of tools which manage/distribute and test ACLs in routers.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has written a parser which can construct rule-trees and get rid of the cruft, unusable, order-misorder and other issues in a large ACL pool?

Something similar to this?

http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2008/HPL-2008-111.pdf

cheers!
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