I think the politics needed to be taken offline, and we should return to using this thread to monitor and update timezone changes around the world. Thanks, Dafydd Dafydd Rhys-Jones | Platform Test Engineer F5 Networks www.f5.com Our Kung fu is Stronger P 206.272. 5555 D 206.272.6280 F 206.272.5556 M 206.291.0706 -----Original Message----- From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Conradi Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11:13 AM To: tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Bug - Statement by Paul Eggert (a TZ Coordinator) on update process not agreeing with IANA sources On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:
On 5/27/12 12:18 AM, SM wrote:
At 13:53 26-05-2012, Tobias Conradi wrote:
Maybe your point of view is that of the RFC 6557 authors.
I can only express my view as an individual. I don't know whether the authors of RFC 6557 share my point of view.
This one does,
But I wonder whether IANA doesn't want to have some say about what happens in a project linked from the IANA homepage http://www.iana.org/.
At a guess some information about IANA actions may be in Section 8 of RFC 6557.
IANA doesn't set the policy. Rather they take policy direction from the IETF. I think many IETF volunteers would be surprised if they see how bugs are treated in the time zone database.
have Russian zones wrong for more than half a year and to have no zone covering Bouvet Island, which has a UTC offset defined by Norwegian law? How do you think an extreme case is defined? Is it an extreme case to
I leave it to the time zone community or Paul Eggert to see whether a case is extreme as it is easier than coming up with a definition. In my opinion the above examples seem more of a matter for Paul Eggert to decide or the time zone community to agree upon.
Bingo. I think many IETF volunteers would be surprised if they would see Paul Eggert being the judge in a controversy between Paul Eggert and others.
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