DHS rule would require ships to report position, identity
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would require, consistent with international law, certain ships to report identifying and position data electronically.
The department said proposed rule would implement an amendment to chapter V of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), regulation 19-1, and would better enable the U.S. Coast Guard to correlate Long Range Identification and Tracking data with data from other sources, detect anomalies, and heighten the country’s overall Maritime Domain Awareness.
The proposed rule can be found at: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/07-4895.htm.