The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly considering that Resolution 643 of the World Radiocommunication Conference (Geneva, 1995) (WRC-95) instructs the ITU-R to carry out the necessary studies to identi@ the bands most suitable for the inter-satellite service (ISS) in order to enable the World Radiocommunication Conference (Geneva, 1997) (WRC-97) to make appropriate allocations to that service.