25. This is not a technical paper. e-Navigation is not
primarily a
set of technical issues. Of course, there are a great many
questions, large and small, which flow from a decision to embrace
the e-Navigation vision. Some will not have easy answers.
Delivering fully viable systems with global coverage will take some
years (though the process could expand from regional coverage of
the world's major shipping lanes). But if we do not make a start,
soon, the agenda may be overtaken and eventually submerged by
uncontrolled technological development and stakeholder confusion.