CONTENTS

SUMMARY       
 1     General
 2     Requirements and assumptions
        2.1     Requirements
        2.2     Assumptions
 3     Physical Entities (PEs)
 4     Mapping requirements
 5     Mapping the distributed functional plane to the physical plane
        5.1     Mapping of functional entities to physical entities
        5.2     Mapping of FE-FE relationships to PE-PE relationships
        5.3     Selection of underlying protocol platforms