An administration (or one acting on behalf of a group of named administrations) which intends to establish a satellite system shall, prior to the coordination procedure send to the International Frequency Registration Board not earlier than five years before the date of bringing into service each satellite network of the planned system, the information listed.... Before an administration notifies to the Board or brings into use any frequency assignment to a space station on a geostationary satellite or to an earth station that is to communicate with a space station on a geostationary satellite, it shall effect coordination of the assignment with any other administration whose assignment in the same band for a space station on a geostationary satellite or for an earth station that communicates with a space station on a geostationary satellite is recorded in the Master Register, or has been coordinated or is being coordinated under the provisions of this paragraph. For this purpose, the administration requesting coordination shall send to any other such administration the information listed.... The WARC-ST resolutions were followed by binding provisions in the 1973 International Telecommunication Convention (ITC) stipulating rational use of the radio spectrum and geostationary orbit (spectrum/orbit) and the avoidance of harmful interference. The provisions state in part that: In using frequency bands for space radio services Members shall bear in mind that radio frequencies and the geostationary satellite are limited natural resources so that countries or groups of countries may have equitable access to both in conformity with the provisions of Radio Regulations according to their needs and the technical facilities at their disposal. All stations, whatever their purpose, must be established and operated in such manner as not to cause harmful interference of other Members, or of recognized private operating agencies, or other duly authorized operating agencies which carry on radio services, and which operate in accordance with the provisions of the Radio Regulations. Another ITC provision specifically extended the responsibilities of the International Frequency Registration Board (IFRB), an ITU organ, in order to effect "an orderly recording of the positions
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