Dear Sirs, Thank you for drafting international LRIT DC specifications. However, I think this document contains too many copies from MSC210(81) - Performance standards and functional requirements for LRIT(See attachment). As I stated some weeks ago, copies from other official resolutions must be avoided since this may cause conflicts between the two documents. We can insert references to MSC210, but copies must be deleted. The new information, which is not contained in MSC210, is just the following CAPACITY paragraph. ADDRESS SYSTEM CAPACITY… The International LRIT Data Centre shall be capable of processing 50,000 SOLAS Class ships. Based on the requirement for ships to transmit LRIT information four times per day, this results in 50,000 x 4 reports per day = 200,00 reports per day. In this case, perperps amendments to the existing MSC210 should be proposed in IMO. I think our task contained in the term of reference is to develop "technical specifications". However, if there is no need to develop additional documents, proposing amendments to the existing MSC210 might be one of the options. Regards, Sadatoshi Koike --- "Cairns, William" <WCairns(a)comdt.uscg.mil&gt; wrote: