[LEAPSECS] Cheating means more planning, not less

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20081227.192200.-1749704408.imp at 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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