I wrote:
The ITU has a responsibility to consider options with a long term
future.
Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
ITU has no such responsibility:
1 The purposes of the Union are:
a) to maintain and extend international cooperation
among all its Member States for the improvement and
rational use of telecommunications of all kinds;
[...]
(http://www.itu.int/net/about/basic-texts/constitution/chapteri.aspx)
If leap-seconds impeede telecommunications, ITU has a responsibility
to get rid of them.
1) An organization with a limited scope (telecommunications) should
not control a standard with a much broader scope (timekeeping).
2) All organizations have an implicit responsibility not to pursue
shortsighted agendas. If an option has no long term future, the ITU
certainly has no business considering it.
Rob
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