RECOMMANDATION ITU-R M.1371 … TECHNICAL  CHARACTERISTICS  FOR  A  UNIVERSAL  SHIPBORNE  AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION  SYSTEM ...
ANNEX 1 … Operational characteristics of a universal shipborne AIS using TDMA techniques in the VHF maritime mobile band
1 Objectives
2 General
3 Identification
4 Information
    4.1 Static
    4.2 Dynamic
    4.3 Voyage related
    4.4 Short safety related messages
    4.5 Information update rates for autonomous mode
5 Frequency band
ANNEX 2 … Technical characteristics of a universal shipborne AIS using TDMA techniques in the maritime mobile band
1 Structure of this annex
2 Physical layer
    2.1 Parameters
    2.2 Bandwidth
    2.3 Transceiver characteristics
    2.4 Modulation scheme
    2.5 Data transmission bit rate
    2.6 Training sequence
    2.7 Data encoding
    2.8 Forward error correction
    2.9 Interleaving
    2.10 Bit scrambling
    2.11 Data link sensing
    2.12 Transmitter settling time
    2.13 Transmitter power
    2.14 Shutdown procedure
3 Link layer
    3.1 Sublayer 1: medium access control (MAC)
    3.2 Sublayer 2: data link service (DLS)
    3.3 Sublayer 3 … Link management entity (LME)
4 Network layer
    4.1 Dual channel operation
    4.2 Distribution of transmission packets
    4.3 Reporting rates
    4.4 Data link congestion resolution
5 Transport layer
    5.1 Definition of transmission packet
    5.2 Source of a transmission packet
    5.3 Conversion of data into transmission packets
    5.4 Transmission packets
    5.5 Presentation interface protocol
ANNEX 3 … Channel management and digital selective-calling (DSC) compatibility
1 Channel management
    1.1 Operating frequency channels
    1.2 Normal default mode
    1.3 Regional operating frequencies
    1.4 Regional operating areas
    1.5 Transitional mode operations near regional boundaries
2 DSC compatibility
    2.1 General
    2.2 Scheduling
    2.3 Regional channel designation
    2.4 Regional area designation
ANNEX 4 … Long range applications