10 International LRIT Data Exchange
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10 International LRIT Data Exchange

  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:

  • .1 route LRIT information between LRIT Data Centres using the information provided in the LRIT Data Distribution Plan;

  • .2 be connected to all LRIT Data Centres and the LRIT Data Distribution Plan server;

  • .3 use a store and forward-buffer to ensure LRIT information is received;

  • .4 automatically maintain journal(s) containing message header information only which may be used for:

    • .1 invoicing functions and settlement of invoicing disputes; and

    • .2 audit purposes;

  • .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;

  • .6 receive journal(s) from Regional, Cooperative, and the International LRIT Data Centre and combine these journal(s) with its own journal(s);

  • .7 prepare, as necessary, performance related statistical information based on the information contained in the journal(s);

  • .8 use a standard protocol for communications agreed protocols to connect to with LRIT Data Centres and the LRIT Data Distribution Plan server;

  • .9 use a standard secure access method with the LRIT Data Centres and the LRIT Data Distribution Plan server;

  • .10 use a standard and expandable message format for communicating with the LRIT Data Centres and the LRIT Data Distribution Plan server;

  • .11 use reliable connections (e.g., TCP) to ensure that the LRIT information is successfully received by the LRIT Data Centres;

  • .12 not have the capability to archive LRIT information;

  • .13 not have the capability to view or access the LRIT information;

  • .14 have access to current LRIT Data Distribution Plan and to earlier versions of the plan; and

  • .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:

  • .1 the LRIT Coordinator off-line access to all journals; and

  • .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.

Parent topic: Annex – Revised Performance Standards and Functional Requirements for the Long-Range Identification and Tracking of Ships
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