Speaking to "I don't think I'd want Unicode specifying any of:"

We'd be hosting the TZ group; the process the group uses and its output would be up to the group. (The only thing we'd need is for the group to provide a description of whatever process is being followed.)

Mark

And by the way, even for Unicode, the consortium is not in the business of specifying APIs or binary file formats; I don't know where that perception arose.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 14:33, Bill Seymour <stdbill.h@pobox.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM, John Emmons<emmo@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I would think this would be a good move for both TZ and Unicode.
>

Why?  Beyond getting localized time zone names in the CLDR,
where's the expertise?

If this is just an offer for hosting an HTTP and FTP site, then cool;
but I don't think I'd want Unicode specifying any of:
 - source file formats.
 - binary file formats.
 - APIs.

--Bill Seymour