In message <20081227.192200.-1749704408....@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" write
s:
>: The ITU has a responsibility to consider options with a long term
>: future.
ITU has no such responsibility:
1 The purposes of the Union are:
a) to maintain and extend international cooperation
among all its Member States for the improvement and
rational use of telecommunications of all kinds;
[...]
(http://www.itu.int/net/about/basic-texts/constitution/chapteri.aspx)
If leap-seconds impeede telecommunications, ITU has a responsibility
to get rid of them.
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