[LEAPSECS] proliferation

[Steve Allen]

Picking up a note from the IETF NTP Working group
https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/ntpwg/2008-March/001159.html

We see that Microsoft's NTP implementation does not play well
with the NTP being run by national standards labs, and David Mills
suggests something a lot like proliferation of time scales:


>    This is quickly becoming a failed mission.  If Microsoft insists

>    on propagating MS-SNTP, they should provide their own

>    infrastructure independent of the existing NTP infrastructure.


I recall Rodney King during the 1992 LA Riots:
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along?

Proliferation is a natural aspect of human existence.  Is there any
way to inhibit it other than to provide a solution so well documented
that everyone finds out about it in grammar school and so compellingly
comprehensively correct that nobody considers making something
different?

By its charter the ITU-R can't do the "well documented" part, and by
its structure and history it hasn't done the "comprehensively correct"
part.  The BIPM and IERS can.

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