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Re: Predictable Internet Time

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 03 January 2017 21:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: Predictable Internet Time
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On 1/3/2017 12:09 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> What governments decide, governments can undecide.

s/governments/IETF/

That's surely why the transition to IPv6 has happened so quickly.

>
> To take contribution to TAI as endorsement of UTC as ineluctable
> perfection and thus the impossibility of changing it ever is a silly
> argument to make.

I take it as active participation that endorses a common standard.

That's how standards work.

Joe

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