First, I can't say I'm very surprised. ITU has always had a nasty tendency to make hard questions "for further study", anyone who have read the original OSI recommendations (X.###) will know what I mean by that.
Second, it is insteresting and depressing that this can seem to come as a "surprise" for so many delegations, probably including the Danish, despite people like us drawing attention to it for the last ten years. This may simply be a convenient excuse for smaller countries to not pick sides. They won't have that excuse next time, if it becomes an official agenda point. In that case, EU-commision gets involved. Third: The only game changer I can spot, is if Daniel Gambis starts to announce leapseconds 30 months in advance with stated intention to get it up to five years, as soon as the science supports DUT1<1s. Fourth: I would have gotten terribly drunk if ITU had abolished leap seconds on my birthday :-) -- 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
