I could not find a doc with the history of the fundamental constants. They seem to be revisited every 4 years, and updated as technology gets better. Next update is 2018.
Electrical Units in the New SI: Saying Goodbye to the 1990 Values (9/2014 paper):
"There will be an inevitable step change in the electrical units realized from quantum standards when this change is implemented, and the numerical values KJ-90 and RK-90 that have been in use for more than 20 years are abrogated and replaced by the new values of KJ and RK based on the latest experiments."
"The most significant effect is a step change of the order of 0.1 uV/V in voltage, as outlined in the previous section. High-end digital voltmeters have specifications of a few parts in 10^6. Even though they behave better in the well-defined environment of a qualified (national) metrology laboratory, the effect of the step change will still remain unnoticed, swamped by the noise and instability of the internal Zener-diode voltage reference used in the instrument."
"a step change of 0.02u
/
in assigned resistor values due to the change from RK-90 to RK should only be seen on the top level working standards maintained within NMIs."
"Capacitance standards are often directly traceable to resistance standards, and in these cases will also see a step change of 0.02 uF/F on the introduction of the updated value for RK."
"We can expect this to change over the next few years, with the implementation of the new SI most probably occurring in 2018."
Am I reading this right?
[edit: Greek alphabet is hell here]