On Apr 1, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> wrote:

<<On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:37:36 +0300, Dzmitry Kazimirchyk <dkazimirchyk@gmail.com> said:

If it is an official IANA position on the matter, I am very
disappointed.

...

I don't believe that IANA has an official position here; IANA hosts
the database but does not maintain it.

For the avoidance of doubt, there is no official IANA position. As noted, IANA is the host of this resource but it is maintained collaboratively by the community of contributors here, lead by the IESG-designated TZ Coordinator who is currently Paul Eggert. It is officially documented in RFC 6557, “Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database”, available at http://www.iana.org/go/rfc6557.

Kim Davies

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ICANN