5.1 Mobile satellite service providers are encouraged
to:
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.1 route Automatic Location Identification (ALI)
and Automatic Number Identification (ANI) in accordance with appropriate
ITU-T Recommendations, with distress calls originating from MSS terminals
routed directly to the RCCs responsible for voice and data calls;
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.2 automatically route information contained in
registration databases in accordance with resolution A.887(21), in
a recognizable format and including the distress call to the responsible
RCC, once means are established for doing so; and
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.3 be capable of retrieving maritime safety information
in a timely manner from NAVAREA, METAREA, other relevant co-ordinators,
and the International Ice Patrol Service, in a standard format and
process established by those co-ordinators.