On Fri, May 3, 2013, at 12:46, Russ Allbery wrote:
random832@fastmail.us writes:
Or maybe all that authority is delegated to the TZ coordinator.
I suspect this was the intention. That's the way that the TZ project had always worked since its inception, and one of the goals when moving this process under the partial aegis of of IANA was to change as little as possible. After all, the existing process had been working fine for many years.
I guess my main objection is to the recently suggested idea that documentation that has always been part of the distribution and which has no adequate formally-IANA-approved replacement somehow lacks "official standing". The solution is to either find a way to prove it has always had official standing (the TZ coordinator has continued including these files in the release), or to invent a process by which to give it official standing (maybe with a quality review and rewrites/reorganization somewhere in that process)