On Mon 2008-03-31T00:55:55 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ: > It is a neat trick to accuse one party (scientists) with the crime of > the other (politicians).
I will stipulate that both the ITU-R and the IAU are guilty of politics, and move on. There is a stark difference in the written record between the actions of the CCIR/ITU-R and the IAU. The CCIR/ITU-R processes hold meetings of working groups which produce documents that are not broadly published and sometimes result in changes by fiat, within a span of a single Plenipotentiary Cycle, which have side effects which are not always addressed in advance. The IAU processes usually stretch over decades with a series of conferences that produce openly published literature treating every side effect anyone can think of. On Mon 2008-03-31T08:06:54 -0600, John E Hein hath writ: > If UTC no longer has leap > seconds or the computers use Steve's TI or similar International Time, Temps International, TI is not my invention. I was not at the Colloquium on UTC that the ITU-R WP7A held in Torino in 2003. TI is the result that was produced at the end of that meeting. See page 3 of the closure/conclusion produced by Ron Beard http://www.ien.it/luc/cesio/itu/closure.pdf The ITU-R called for international experts to come and provide advice, and the advice was to change the name. -- Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
