[LEAPSECS] Coming of age in the solar system

[Rob Seaman]

I continue to be amazed that after more than ten years this conversation can still spark such enthusiasm :-)

On Sep 4, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> 	http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.32.7547

> 	http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.20.6775


These look interesting.  It may be a few days before I have time to read them (traveling).


> It's mostly a paperwork problem: it's cheaper to pause production

> than perform the tests to prove that it works correctly.  It would

> be even cheaper if the problem did not exist in the first place.


Too bad the issue is embedded in the real world, not the paper world :-)


> What I can disclose publically has been disclosed publically on

> this list previously.  What has been relayed to me in confidence

> stays in confidence.


Perfectly understandable.  Would suggest that confidentiality cuts both ways - if they can't divulge the details, they shouldn't be able to make blind claims about consequences.  Remember, mum's the word, Mathesar.

Rob