In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Seaman writes: >The attached WP7A press release states that the working party has >decided that more time is required to build consensus. It does not, >however, suggest that any other proposals will be entertained.
Neither does it in any way bar new proposals. I don't think there is even anything in the WP7A rules that would allow them to bar new proposals, provided these were submitted properly. But I think you read their message wrong. I don't think they said "We'll try to build concensus". As I read it, they more or less told USA that their proposal was nice and all that, but that since it did not come with a concensus or majority, they ain't going to touch it. The to weight, as I understand it, is therefore on USA and the leap-second aware computer people. With respect to the secrecy and lack of awareness of the ITU standards I can only agree: IETF proved that standards work a lot better when anyone easily can get hold of them and everybody can afford to read them. Poul-Henning -- 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.
