Subject: [ntpwg] Meeting of interest to NTP WG

From: Rob Seaman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:51:18 -0700

Hello,

We have been wholesaling announcements on a variety of forums for the meeting we have organized, "Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on Earth".  The details:

	UTC and Civil Timekeeping
	University of Virginia
	Charlottesville, VA
	May 29-31, 2013 *
	http://futureofutc.org (for registration and abstracts)

This is a follow-up to our previous meeting, "Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation", that was held in Pennsylvania in October 2011.  The proceedings are available from:

		http://www.univelt.com/book=3042

and preprints, presentations and transcribed discussions are linked to the current meeting's web site.

While the specific motivation of the meeting is to provide a response to the International Telecommunication Union's proposed redefinition of UTC, and their request at WRC-12 for additional study of the issues - more generally this is an opportunity to discuss the broad technical, scientific, legal, historical and many other implications of time in society.  We will also make a considered attempt to identify fundamental engineering requirements for civil timekeeping, and begin to organize an effort to design and deploy new protocols and infrastructure, standards and informatics for timekeeping systems moving forward.  Work is needed whether or not leap seconds cease.  NTP is a great tool, but it can only deliver a coherent time scale(s) if such are defined in the first place.

Thanks for your consideration.  The meeting will be stronger with participation from the NTP working group.

Rob Seaman
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Tucson, Arizona
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* There will be a reception on the evening of May 28 at the Leander McCormick Observatory on the UVA campus, which has a lovely 26" Alvan Clark refractor. The UTC sessions will be on May 29-30 and we're holding May 31 for any unfinished business as well as a tour of Monticello's clocks and sundials.

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