[LEAPSECS] countdown to WRC-15, CEPT ECC CPG

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Mon Oct 5 15:13:27 EDT 2015


Do you know the artist’s name? We had some artists-in-residence a few years ago who heard the spiel about leap seconds.
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> On Oct 5, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> On Mon 2015-10-05T06:25:25 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
>> Consensus already exists that ITU can do whatever it wants by
>> defining a new timescale under a new name.
> 
> The web hits are consistent with ongoing negotiations between parties
> who are forging their voting positions in private exchanges.
> The vote at WRC will probably not become public, and neither will the
> considerations beforhand which led to the result.
> 
> The director here (hey, we have a director, finally) got an e-mail
> from an artist who wants to attend WRC as an observer to inform her
> upcoming art projects.  She has had no luck getting the attention of
> her own nation's delegation and she wrote to here wondering if we knew
> a way.  I had to write sadly that I suspect that most of the
> cooperating organizations have already had their deadlines for setting
> up credentials for WRC.
> 
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