"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" -- Rush
I wonder if they will reach a decision before the Temples of Syrinx are overthrown in 2112 :) Warner On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Steve Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > Last Thursday the chair of WRC-15 Special Working Group 5A3 submitted > Temporary Document [68] > Proposals relating to agenda item 1.14 > http://www.itu.int/md/R15-WRC15-151102-TD-0068/en > No further meetings of SWG 5A3 are on the calendar. > > The contents of that will not be available until after it is > considered by a plenary session, but Saturday the CEPT ECC published a > MSWord document of news from the second week of WRC-15 at > > http://www.cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/cpg/page/news-from-cept-at-wrc-15,-second-week > > The dismaying news in that document says there will be no decision > from WRC-15. That means the earliest decision is at WRC-19, so there > will be leap seconds in the radio broadcast time scale at least until > 2023. The news item reads > > The sub working group (SWG 5A3) has finished its work and has > developed a draft new WRC Resolution (as part of way forward) > which will be discussed at WG5A meeting. > > The draft Resolution sets out the framework for further work in > collaboration with relevant bodies (i.e. BIPM/CIPM/CGPM etc) as > ITU is not a proper body to decide the definition of UTC, and will > report back in 2023 and meanwhile the ITU-R Recommendation TF > 460-6 (with leap seconds) will continue to apply until 2023. > > The draft resolution was agreed in the sub working group however > the group could not reach an agreement on proposals to modify the > article 1.14 of the Radio Regulations (RR) and both options now > will be will be discussed at the next WG5A level. > > Next step: Further discussions at the WG5A level. > > By 2023 the process of reconsidering leap seconds will have gone on > for more than two decades. I suspect that many technical applications > will find they have enough agency to choose a better time scale in the > absence of an international recommendation. > > -- > Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) > UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 > 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 > Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m > _______________________________________________ > LEAPSECS mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs >
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