[LEAPSECS] Standards of time zones -Brooks Harris

[Brooks Harris]

On 2014-01-09 10:28 PM, Steve Allen wrote:

> On Thu 2014-01-09T01:56:03 -0800, Brooks Harris hath writ:

>> In 2011 you posted to the list a link to the 2011 ITU-R CACE issued

>> Circular 539

>>

>> http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2011-June/003058.html

>>

>> Whats the current status of that? Still on hold?

> That was one of the rare ITU-R documents which is released in advance

> of a decision.  The usual ITU-R process is so closed that I can't say

> I understand it, so anything I know is incomplete.


That's disconcerting.

I note two relevant entries in the BIPM Annual Report on Time Activities 
Volume 7 2012 -

6. Rapid UTC (F. Arias, A. Harmegnies, G. Panfilo, G. Petit, L. 
Tisserand) describes an effort to improve UTC, so maybe there's work 
going on to help inform the debate further.

7. New proposed definition of UTC (F. Arias, W. Lewandowski) states the 
''It was decided to postpone the decision until the World 
Radiocommunication Conference 2015" . There, at least, are two names 
officially related to the debate.

Are those relevant? Is there communication with any of these people?

-Brooks


>

> In this case the issue of the open CACE seems to have been cued by the

> unusual fact that the ITU-R bureacrats could see that the delegates

> from the nations at the 2012 Radiocommunication Assembly were going to

> be asked to vote on a draft proposed revision that had not achieved

> consensus at the Working Party or Study Group levels.  The subsequent

> press reports about the RA finding itself split 3 ways (much like

> several other committees of experts had been previously) and then

> declining to vote seem to indicate that any hope for resolution

> embodied in issuing that CACE did not come to fruition.

>

> Follwing the RA was the WRC, and they produced Resolution 653

> [COM6/20] (WRC-12) which has become WRC-15 Agenda Item 1.14.  The

> wording of Resolution 653 seems extremely strong, basically lighting a

> fire under SG7 and WP7A and telling them to engage with other

> organizations and do whatever is necessary to give better options to

> the delegates who come to the 2015 RA.  The next layer after the WRC

> who turned 653 into Agenda Item 1.14 toned down the intensity a little.

>

> Google hasn't shown me anything released since then, so whatever

> negotiations are going on are staying out of sight.

>

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