Following the ICAO 2010 High Level Safety Conference, the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC/MAK) comprising many of the independent republics of the former Soviet Union, has presented a brief report on their assessment of real-time data transmission by aircraft over oceanic FIRs, in low density traffic regions and outside inhabited areas.
The ICAO Flight Recorder Working Group is already engaged in assessing the viability of alternative means of recovering flight data, and the ICAO has accepted the IAC/MAK paper as part of this investigation.
The paper, which has been translated by the IAC/MAK into English can be viewed at:-
IAC Flight Data Paper
References within the paper are made to the AF447 situation, and it would seem probable that the recent reference by Le Figaro to the Russian Army being involved in discussions with the BEA, could more correctly be described as Interstate Aviation Committee instigated.