An archive of all output from the VLBA correlator will be maintained at the AOC. The user(s) who proposed the observations will retain a proprietary right to the data for a fixed interval of 18 months following the end of correlation of the last observations requested in the original proposal or a direct extension of that proposal. Thereafter, archived data will be available to any user on request. Indices are planned to facilitate this access to archival data.
Data will be distributed on a medium requested by the user. For the initial distribution to the user proposing the observations, this will occur automatically, soon after correlation is complete, provided a medium has been specified. Distributed data will conform to the new FITS binary table standard for interferometry data interchange (Diamond 1997), which is read by AIPS task FITLD.