To put it in perspective, the CLDR project has thousands of pieces of data in hundreds of languages.  The scope of the CLDR project is vastly bigger than TZ.  That being said, I'm confident that if unicode were to take over tz, then you could still get VERY quick turnaround when you needed to.   I would think this would be a good move for both TZ and Unicode.

Regards,

John C. Emmons
Unicode CLDR Project vice-chair
Globalization Architect
IBM Software Group, Austin TX

From:	Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com>
To:	tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Cc:	tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Date:	08/27/2009 02:11 PM
Subject:	Re: New home for time zone stuff by 2012?

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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mark Davis ⌛ <mark@macchiato.com> wrote:
The officers of the Unicode Consortium (http://unicode.org) have discussed this issue, and are interested in exploring hosting the TZ efforts. Aside from the Unicode projects, we currently also support other independent efforts (http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/, http://www.unicode.org/udhr/). Hosting the TZ project would provide for mailing list hosting, code distribution, source code repository (SVN) if desired, etc., web pages, etc. -- presuming that the functioning of the TZ group would continue basically as it does now.

Unicode also host the CLDR - Common Locale Data Repository.

Although not the same as the TZ data, there is at least some commonality in theme.

 
If there is interest in something along these lines, we can discuss more specifics of what this would look like and then pass a proposal by our board of directors.



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