[LEAPSECS] WP7A status

[Matsakis, Demetrios]

There is a mistake in the viewgraphs, which the authors will correct in
any other reports they generate.  This is the reference to URSI.

I was the person who chaired the URSI Commission J working group, and
later chaired the URSI-wide working group on the matter.  Every report
noted that no significant opposition or support for a change came from
within URSI.

The first survey I did, now outdated, reached through the internet to
anyone who chose to respond.  I did receive more negative opinions than
positive ones from the general public.  But the absolute numbers were
small, and none were URSI-related.   Then that commission WG completed
its job, and I chaired an URSI-wide group that did a second survey, 3
years later.  This went only to URSI and the only responses we received
were abstentions. 

On the basis of six years of non-expression of interest from their
constituency, the URSI secretariat made a unanimous decision to not
respond to the ITU-R's Special Rapporteur Group's letter, and my working
group was disbanded.

Historians may note that this provides two rare instances of a committee
being formed, doing its job on time, and then terminating itself.

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http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/48thmeeting/Reports/Timing%20S
ubcommittee/48-LS%2020080916.pdf

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