[LEAPSECS] Get off my lawn!

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20110620143007.GA3318 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:


>The strength and reach of their arm is exaggerated by Dr.  Beard and

>coauthors [...]


This has nothing to do with who invented UTC, but about if their
lawful decisions get implemented or ignored.

If you want a relevant technical precedent, look at the OSI protocols:
They were ITU standards which everybody ignored in preference for TCP/IP
which actually worked.


>It looks like that part of the story will not be presented to the

>delegates to the ITU-R Radiocommunications Assembly when they vote

>next year.


How would it possibly be relevant to the question at hand  ?

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