Data Center Response Form
Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry

Data Center name:  Communications Research Laboratory

Parent/Funding organization:  Communications Research Laboratory
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Japan

Name and title of primary technical contact:  Yasuhiro Koyama, Senior Research 
Scientist, Radio Astronomy Applications Section, Kashima Space Research Center

Name and title of administrative contact:  Ken'ichi Okamoto, Director of 
Standards and Measurements Division

Mailing address:  Kashima Space Research Center, 893-1 Hirai, Kashima, 
                  Ibaraki 314-0012, JAPAN

Phone: +81-299-84-7143              Fax: +81-299-84-7159

E-mail address:	koyama@crl.go.jp    Web address: http://ksp.crl.go.jp/

Indicate which IVS Network Stations, Operation Centers, Correlators, and 
Analysis Centers you will support: Key Stone Project (KSP) VLBI experiments, 
K-4 experiments

Internet connection type or bit rate:  6Mbps
Data storage capacity: 10Gbytes

Mirror sites planned:

Describe any planned facility upgrades.

Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to data center functions:

Indicate and explain briefly which of the following IVS Data Center functions 
you will perform: 
     X  Receive and archive schedule files
     X  Receive and archive log files
     X  Receive and archive data products
     X  Provide public access to IVS data products

Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate as IVS 
Associate Members through their affiliation with your data center.

Yasuhiro Koyama   Senior Research Scientist, Radio Astronomy Applications 
                  Section, Kashima Space Research Center
Masato Furuya     Research Scientist, Key Stone Project Team
Ryuichi Ichikawa  Senior Research Scientist, Radio Astronomy Applications 
                  Section, Kashima Space Research Center
Taizoh Yoshino    Leader of Key Stone Project Team
Yukio Takahashi   Section Chief of Space and Time Measurements Section, 
                  Standards and Measurements Division

Please provide any other information that you feel will be helpful in 
demonstrating the capabilities of your data center to participate in the IVS. 

Your signature on this form indicates your agreement to participate in the 
IVS as a Data Center and to work closely with the IVS Coordinating Center. 
If this is a new proposal (i.e. not carried over from IERS) your signature 
commits your organization to participate in the IVS.

Name of person signing:	Yoji Furuhama
Title: Director General, Communications Research Laboratory

Signature: _________________________________________	Date: _________________