The user manifest (see CompatibleOne Consumer) is received by the SLAP MASTER allocation engine. This engine triggers the gathering of events required for accounting and billing, and then transmits the manifest to the CORDS Parser. The CORDS Parser transforms the XML description of the manifest file into a validated and well-formed provisioning plan. The CORDS Parser performs a syntactic verification of the manifest file prior to engaging the descriptive resources used to represent the resulting architectural plan required to meet the specific requirements.