CONTENTS

     
        A.1     Introduction
                  A.1.1     Scope
                  A.1.2     References
                  A.1.3     Definitions
                  A.1.4     Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms
                  A.1.5     Conventions
        A.2     Functional model for GVNS
                  A.2.1     Introduction
                  A.2.2     Relationship to functional model of Recommendation Q.85.6
                  A.2.3     Descriptions of the functional entities
        A.3     Information flows for GVNS
                  A.3.1     GVNS procedures
                  A.3.2     Information flows
        A.4     SDL diagrams for functional entities
        A.5     Functional entity actions
        A.6     Mapping of functional entities to physical entities