Re: [LEAPSECS] interoperability

From: Rob Seaman <seaman_at_NOAO.EDU>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:24:59 -0700

On Jan 9, 2006, at 12:08 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <001d01c614bd$d4096dc0$4f18f204_at_computer>, Tom Van Baak
> writes:
>
>> What if some killer app 40 years hence requires 100 ms or 1 ms
>> time accuracy.
>
> You mean like mobile phones and optical tele networks ?

Such infrastructure requires a precision *relative* timescale. I
believe Tom's argument hinged on infrastructure that might evolve to
require a precision *absolute* timescale. These are very different
things.
Received on Mon Jan 09 2006 - 08:25:35 PST