According to the ITU-R the next meeting of SG7 will happen in Geneva on 2010-10-04 and 2010-10-12.
According to the US ITAC-R the issue of leap seconds in UTC will be considered by ITU-R SG7. The summary from V. Timofeev explains that last year ITU-R WP7A decided that they could not reach consensus and that they had addressed all the technical issues, so they advanced the proposed revision of Rec 460 to SG7. In the absence of approval from WP7A, SG7 could not approve, nor send it back to WP7A, so the draft has waited. Timofeev has released a questionnaire to the delegations along with instructions that SG7 should only consider technical issues. Technical issues would mean the draft is to return to WP7A. Other-then-technical issues are to be referred to the Radiocommunication Assembly. The 4 (technical) questions are Do you support maintaining the current arrangement of linking UT1 and UTC (to provide a celestial time reference)? Do you have any technical difficulty in introducing leap second today? Would you support the revision of Recommendation ITU-R TF.460-6? If it is agreed to eliminate leap second within 5 years after approval of the revision of Recommendation ITU-R TF.460-6, would that create technical difficulties for your administration? The US draft answers from USWP7A Chairman Wayne Hanson are no yes yes no The US SG7 will have a telecon on 2010-08-16. I expect that some of this content should appear at https://www.ussg7.org/default.aspx Other international delegations are presumably engaged in similar review processes. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> 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