On page 671 of the June 12 issue of Nature there is a newsbit covering the leap seconds issue. There are quotes from me, Pat Wallace, William Klepczynski, and Ron Beard. Indications are that the recent colloquium in Torino did not permit formulation of a complete plan for presentation at the ITU's WRC which is happening now in Geneva http://www.itu.int/events/eventdetails.asp?lang=en&eventid=6151 but that the working group may have a plan for the 2006 meeting. In summary, Beard predicts that the ITU activity could take years.
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