Arix,
Yes, your understanding is correct. Ive never thought about it but you have a good point.
In case you are looking to see all the policies names in a quick way, you could try "show security policies | match policy":
root@SRX100H2# show security policies | match policy
policy A-2-B {
policy B-2-A {
policy A-2-C {
policy C-2-A {
This way you can have a good idea of after/before what policy to insert your newly created policy. I hope this helps.
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