About the draft itself Re: WD-SIA-2.0

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Mon May 5 17:30:01 PDT 2014


On May 5, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Patrick Dowler <patrick.dowler at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:

> The intent here is that the BAND parameter only supports one unit (m) and one reference position/time/scale/hard-to-remember thing.

The intent is to pick one thing.  The UTC issue is that what is now a representation of Universal Time (~ GMT) may well be redefined to be a representation of Atomic Time.  The intent may be impossible.

That said, I agree with whatever Arnold says.

> PS-Yes, wavelength in meters - no one's first choice :-)

Is it anybody’s second choice?

Rob



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