From every [projective plane](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_plane) a coordinitisation can be constructed on a [planar ternary ring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar_ternary_ring), and conversely from every planar ternary ring a projective plane can be constructed. (For background see [Weibel's survey of non-Desarguian planes](http://www.ams.org/notices/200710/tx071001294p.pdf)).


Isomorphic planar ternary rings yield isomorphic projective planes, however there exist projective planes that can be coordinitised by non-isomorphic planar ternary rings.


Which planar ternary rings coordinitise their projective plane uniquely up to isomorphism? 


(In other words there is a surjective function from isomorphism classes of planar ternary rings to isomorpism classes of projective planes; on what domain is it injective?)


As stated in Weibel's survey above two ternary rings are isomorphic if (and only if) the automorphism group of the projective plane maps any quadrilateral into any other quadrilateral. It is not clear to me, however, what this means about the ternary ring itself.


I know this class includes the alternative division rings (see [Bruck and Kleinfeld - The Structure of Alternative Division Rings, Theorem B in Section 5](http://www.ams.org/journals/proc/1951-002-06/S0002-9939-1951-0045099-9/S0002-9939-1951-0045099-9.pdf)).


P.S. I originally stated that this class contains the near-fields, but this is false.



When does a planar ternary ring uniquely coordinitise a projective plane?
The answer to the problem is well known; since :


all the PTRs coordinatizing a given projective plane are isomorphic iff it is a moufang plane iff all these PTRS are isomorphic alternative division rings. <http://www.math.uni-kiel.de/geometrie/klein/math/geometry/moufang.html> 


However the problem to give a purely algebraic proof of this result seem to be an open problem.


