(e) invite Inmarsat to help to ensure that all responsible MRCCs with associated search and rescue regions have the specific information they may need to contact ships and other craft via Inmarsat;
(f) recommend that providers of GMDSS services develop the capacity to distribute alert data as directly as practicable to responsible RCCs and to decode alert messages prior to delivery to the search and rescue system when this can be done without introducing delays in delivery of the alert; and
(g) urge all users to ensure that their GMDSS equipment is at all times correctly coded and its identities are properly registered in a recognized national or international SAR database.
3. ALSO INVITES the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization to bring this resolution to the attention of all coastal States in the Indian Ocean region.
