10.1 An International LRIT Data Exchange recognized
by the Committee should be established.
10.2 Contracting Governments should cooperate,
under the coordination of the Committee, with a view to ensuring the
establishment of the International LRIT Data Exchange.
10.3 The International LRIT Data Exchange should:
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.1 route LRIT information between LRIT Data Centres
using the information provided in the LRIT Data Distribution Plan;
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.2 be connected to all LRIT Data Centres and the
LRIT Data Distribution Plan server;
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.3 use a store and forward-buffer to ensure LRIT
information is received;
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.4 automatically maintain journal(s) containing
message header information only which may be used for:
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.5 archive journal(s), for at least one year and
until such time as the Committee reviews and accepts the LRIT Coordinator’s
annual report of the audit of its performance. However, the archived
journal(s) should provide a complete record of the activities of the
exchange between two consecutive annual audits of its performance;
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.6 receive journal(s) from Regional, Cooperative,
and the International LRIT Data Centre and combine these journal(s)
with its own journal(s);
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.7 prepare, as necessary, performance related
statistical information based on the information contained in the
journal(s);
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.8 use a standard protocol for communications
agreed protocols to connect to with LRIT Data Centres and the LRIT
Data Distribution Plan server;
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.9 use a standard secure access method with the
LRIT Data Centres and the LRIT Data Distribution Plan server;
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.10 use a standard and expandable message format
for communicating with the LRIT Data Centres and the LRIT Data Distribution
Plan server;
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.11 use reliable connections (e.g., TCP) to ensure
that the LRIT information is successfully received by the LRIT Data
Centres;
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.12 not have the capability to archive LRIT information;
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.13 not have the capability to view or access
the LRIT information;
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.14 have access to current LRIT Data Distribution
Plan and to earlier versions of the plan; and
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.15 receive pricing information from LRIT Data
Centres.
10.4 The International LRIT Data Exchange should
comply with the provisions of the Technical specifications for the
International LRIT Data Exchangefootnote and
with the relevant provisions of the Technical specifications for communications
within the LRIT system and of the Technical specifications for the
LRIT Data Distribution Plan.
10.5 The International LRIT Data Exchange should
provide to:
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.1 the LRIT Coordinator off-line access to all
journals; and
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.2 Contracting Governments and LRIT Data Centres
off-line access only to their share of the journals which relates
to the LRIT information they have requested and were provided with.
10.6 The performance of the International LRIT
Data Exchange should be audited by the LRIT Coordinator.
10.6.1 The International LRIT Data Exchange should
cooperate and make available to the LRIT Coordinator the information
required to enable the satisfactory completion of an audit of its
performance.
10.6.2 The International LRIT Data Exchange should
settled its financial obligations vis-à-vis the LRIT Coordinator
in a timely manner in accordance with the arrangements they have agreed.