In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>Could somebody in the know comment on the process that will likely >be followed at the ITU Radiocommunication Assembly in Geneva in >January to debate and decide the UTC question(s)? Not only does >it appear that the proposed text is not publicly available, it isn't >obvious how and under what circumstances this text might change >during deliberations. I talked to one who has been there back in the 1980ies, and he said that it is an incredibly boring process, slogging through often hundreds of proposals a day, the vast majority of them, sometimes all of them, being approved by uanimous concent, because all the wrangling takes place out-of-band to save on-agenda time. They have something akin to Robers Rules Of Order, only it's an UN-variant which has adaptations for multiple languages (You cannot raise a proposal in Swahili or Danish and expect to get a vote right away etc.) He didn't remember any recommendations being ammended, in plenum, unless they were administrative of nature (How much money for the ITU printing office and new headquarters etc). So his guess was that "the TF460 proposal comes up, people wave their paddles, and that's the end of it" -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
