The document summarizes the key design issues that must be addressed when building a distributed database management system (DBMS). It outlines nine main design issues: 1) distributed database design, 2) distributed directory management, 3) distributed query processing, 4) distributed concurrency control, 5) distributed deadlock management, 6) reliability of distributed DBMS, 7) replication, 8) relationships among problems, and 9) additional issues like federated databases and peer-to-peer computing raised by growth of the internet. For each issue, it briefly describes the challenges and considerations for designing a distributed DBMS.