On Fri 2023-12-08T14:55:27-0700 Brian Inglis via tz hath writ:
[I read about one bureaucrat who had spent seven years thus far trying to get a document approved!]
A century ago the Paris bureau of the IERS, then the BIH, undertook activities which were not explicit in its charter, and as a result suffered greatly. At subsequent meetings when their oversight committee wanted them to undertake new activities the minutes document that the BIH director had to remind the oversight committee to write a draft directing them to perform the new duties and explicitly vote to record their approval of that document. As much as we all might like a copyright-free document, and perhaps even more, a digitally-signed authenticatable leap-seconds.list, I do not expect that to happen unless several international scientific bodies request the current overseeing body to produce a written directive telling the IERS to do that. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m