On Mon 2016-02-15T21:38:59 -0800, Paul Eggert hath writ:
As I recall the IERS was asked a while ago, with no definite response yet.
French copyright law is a funny thing, not to mention international bureaucracy, and it's possible we'll be stuck with using a non-IERS file indefinitely. I hope the NIST can maintain a leap-second file in a timely fashion; otherwise we'd have to do it ourselves, and then the world might have *three* files where one should suffice....
The fifteen year long leap second fiasco in the ITU-R has resulted in a situation where US experts are constrained not to communicate anything which has not been cleared by Department of State, and I suppose similar scenarios exist elsewhere. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m