CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Introduction
 2     Recent experiences of the registration process
        2.1     Issues highlighted
                  2.1.1     Antenna characteristics
                  2.1.2     Location of telescope elements in multiple countries
                  2.1.3     Operational nature of the station being notified
                  2.1.4     Frequency bands
 3     Conclusion
Annex 1  Parameters required for ITU-R registration of stations detailing general characteristics of the satellite network, earth station or radio astronomy station
        A.1     Identity of the satellite network, earth station or radioastronomy station
        A.2     Date of bringing into use
        A.3     Operating administration or agency
        A.7     Specific earth station or radio astronomy station site characteristics
        B.6     Radio astronomy station antenna characteristics
        C.2     Assigned frequency (frequencies)
        C.3     Assigned frequency band
        C.4     Class of station and nature of service
        C.5     Receiving system noise temperature
       C.13     Characteristics of observations for radio astronomy stations
Annex 2  The experience with registering LOFAR
 1     Introduction
 2     Description of LOFAR
        2.1     LOFAR Core
        2.2     LOFAR remote stations
        2.3     LOFAR international stations
 3     Registration approach
        3.1     Geographical separation
                  3.1.1     Core
                  3.1.2     Remote stations
                  3.1.3     International stations
        3.2     Substations or beams
        3.3     Frequency bands
        3.4     Registration of the stations in the Netherlands
        3.5     Registration of the stations in other countries
 4     Issues encountered
 5     Conclusion
Annex 3  Data provided to the ITU