CONTENTS

 1     Scope and purpose          
 2     References 
 3     Definitions  
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere    
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation       
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms        
 5     Conventions     
        5.1     Usage of the term "IMS"    
 6     Objectives of FMC         
        6.1     General objectives of FMC
        6.2     Objectives from different perspectives        
 7     Fundamental characteristics of FMC        
 8     FMC service requirements           
        8.1     Access service support      
        8.2     Enhanced VPN     
        8.3     Unified messaging  
 9     FMC capability requirements       
        9.1     Access independence        
        9.2     Uniform authentication and uniform authorization mechanism           
        9.3     Charging and management 
        9.4     Service access environment
        9.5     Quality of service   
        9.6     Interworking          
        9.7     Reliability requirements      
        9.8     Security requirements         
        9.9     Public servicesissues         
       9.10     Network selection
       9.11     Location identification       
       9.12     Personalized configuration 
       9.13     Personal data network storage      
       9.14     Accounting support capabilities     
       9.15     Message processing          
       9.16     Presence information         
       9.17     Mechanism for applications to access user data     
       9.18     User identifier management           
10     Network environment     
       10.1     General network environments      
       10.2     FMC network scenarios   
Appendix I – FMC approach and scenarios    
        I.1        Convergence in the control layer   
        I.2        Convergence in application layer  
        I.3        Convergence in the management layer      
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