Colleagues I'm sorry for the lateness of the hour, but I have two comments on the paper discussing the communications specification (output paper 3). Firstly, the paper makes a couple of references to satellite communciation equipment. The papers produced by IMO so far have been technologically-neutral, so I suggest that we simply refer to "the ship-borne equipment". This is more consistent. Secondly, the paper suggests that the extra reporting period should be limited to 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour etc. and that additional users should be accommodated within this structure. As the document stands at present, this looks arbitrary and I suggest that we add extra text to explain that this is to reduce the complexity of the ship-borne equipment whilst allowing the data centres to cater fror a greater number of users, or something similar. Congratulations to all for the work done so far. regards (for Iridium) Christopher Snowdon ================================ Access Partnership Grayton House 498 Fulham Road London SW6 5NH United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)20 7835 5910 Fax: +44 (0)20 7610 3934 www.accesspartnership.com ================================