Record of Decisions Taken at the Fifth Resolution 609 (Rev
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Resolution 609 (Rev. WRC-07) Consultation Meeting 13-15 May 2008 Record of Decisions Taken at the Fifth Resolution 609 (Rev. WRC-07) Consultation Meeting (Xi'an, 13-15 May 2008) The fifth Resolution 609 (Rev. WRC-07) Consultation Meeting was convened, pursuant to the requirements of Resolution 609 (Rev. WRC-07), at the Sofitel conference centre in Xi'an, China from 13-15 May 2008 and hosted by the Radio Regulatory Department of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry. A list of participants is available on the Resolution 609 Forum page on the ITU web site. Approximately 30 delegates from government and industry, along with a representative of the Radiocommunication Bureau, attended the meeting. Through the Convenor the delegates expressed their sympathy for the people affected by the Sichuan province Earthquake which occurred the day before the meeting and wished the Chinese government every success in its rescue efforts. The acting Convenor for the meeting was Dominic Hayes, as Hugues de Bailliencourt was unable to attend at the last minute. The difficult technical work was handled in a sub-group ably led by Benoit Louvet. The following actions were taken in regard to Resolution 609: 1. The Meeting agreed to a modification to the Terms of Reference that were adopted in September 2006 (Bangalore) so that in future only the finer resolution 1 degree epfd data (instead of both 1 degree and 5 degree) will be used to calculate the aggregate epfd of all systems. A copy of the modified Terms of Reference has been posted to the Resolution 609 Forum that is maintained by the BR on the ITU web site (http://www.itu.int/ITU- R/space/res609/). 2. The Meeting decided that the sixth Resolution 609 (Rev. WRC-07) Consultation Meeting will be convened at a venue to be determined, for a period of three working days, tentatively in 9-11 June 2009. 3. The meeting revised the format for the List of System Characteristics which is contained in Attachment 1 hereto; now only 1degree latitude/longitude steps will be considered. The following points describe the List of System Characteristics required to be submitted by Administrations: a. Section I-9 of Attachment 1 contains the format of the results of the epfd calculation for each RNSS individual system, in MS Excel format (see Attachment 2 at Template, Sheet 1), using 1 degree steps in latitude and longitude. For non-GSO systems, administrations should also provide the time step resolution and the number of time steps simulated.
