[LEAPSECS] leap smear

[Rob Seaman]

I am deeply skeptical at the notion that any entity has performed a coherent inventory of either leap second or UTC dependencies.  The level of responsibility for DoD is orders of magnitude higher than anything discussed on this list over the dozen years of the list's existence.

Also, WP7A meeting minutes are not the height of reliability.

Now you are also asserting that "the administration" fast-tracked it.  Is that the Clinton administration that was in office when first this lead balloon was floated, or the Bush/Cheney administration, or the Obama administration?  Under what circumstances would this issue rise to the level of shouldering more important (at least, more urgent) issues out of the way in between the wars and the economic meltdown?

"Fast tracking" implies a level of coherence beyond such an obscure issue.
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On Sep 18, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> In message <25759089-5C78-4978-B83D-F4A4E225D223 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>> On Sep 18, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> 

>>> The initial proposal to drop Leap Seconds came out of Pentagon and was fa=

>> st-tracked through the US Government.

>>> =

>> 

>>> We have never been told the where, who, how and why of that.

>> 

>> Hard to reconcile these two assertions.

> 

> It is in one of the WP7A meeting minutes that Pentagon originated

> the proposal.

> 

> What's missing is:  Where in Pentagon, Who in Pentagon, How they

> got it fast-tracked, and Why the administration fast-tracked it.