On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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> IANA doesn't have the resources to serve billions of clients.

That's clear, but adding an option to zic to generate timezone data in tzdist format may not be out of reach.  Ideally, tzcode would include a reference implementation of an RFC 7808 "Time Zone Data Server".  Wasn't such a reference implementation created by the tzdist group?