1. A method, comprising: tracking, by a processor, a plurality of service level agreement (SLA) policies and service level definition (SLD) policies applied to a request message of a correlated request/response message pair; detecting a response message of the correlated request/response message pair; identifying, using the tracked plurality of SLA policies and SLD policies applied to the request message, a corresponding plurality of platform-specific policy enforcement processing rules used to enforce the plurality of SLA policies and SLD policies on the response message; and enforcing the plurality of SLA policies and SLD policies on the response message using the identified corresponding plurality of platform-specific policy enforcement processing rules; the method further comprising: for each policy applied to the request message: determining an executed platform-specific policy enforcement rule used to enforce the policy on the request message; and capturing from a name of the determined executed platform-specific policy enforcement rule within a symmetric policy enforcement context structure: a platform-specific policy enforcement rule name prefix of the determined executed platform-specific policy enforcement rule that identifies the enforced policy, where the prefix is shared within names of a set of policy enforcement rules that implement an SLD policy, any associated SLA policies, and any policy alternatives available for the SLD policy and any associated SLA policies; an indication that distinguishes an enforced SLD policy from an enforced SLA policy; and an indication of whether a policy alternative was executed to enforce the respective policy, comprising an identifier of each executed policy alternative.