[LEAPSECS] private smear goes public

[Brooks Harris]

Hi Tony,

On 2016-12-02 08:43 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>> I don't know what the effective latency is from IERS -> TZdata -> distros ->
>> releases -> users -> computers, but 6 months is only going to be enough
>> if everybody pays maximum attention *EVERY* *BLOODY* *TIME*.
> The cascade actually goes IERS -> NIST -> tz because the NIST leap seconds
> announcement is public domain whereas the IERS announcement has an unclear
> copyright status.
Can you explain that copyright issue further? I was under the impression 
Bulletin C and related from IERS were public.
-Brooks
> And since leap seconds are rather peripheral to the tz
> database's purpose, they aren't pushed out amazingly swiftly.
>
> http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-July/023867.html
> http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-August/023914.html
>
> Tony.