The Unicode consortium projects have very different processes and release schedules. <br><ul><li>The Unicode Standard process is the heaviest; it uses larger quarterly physical meetings, plus smaller monthly one-day meetings, and has  releases about 1 to 1.5 years. </li>
<li>Script updates use email communication only, and may be updated in weeks. </li><li>CLDR uses weekly phone meetings and email; a major release of CLDR can take 9-12 months, but a dot-dot update of CLDR only needs days.</li>
<li>A change in the UDHR can be done overnight.</li></ul>So it all depends on the process the TZ group wants to use.<br><br>(BTW, in Google we are well aware of the need for speed; getting our products updated around the globe with new TZ data with notice of only a week or two is extremely painful!)<br>
<br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:22, Larry Gilbert <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lgilbert@digium.com">lgilbert@digium.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was about to suggest this, but am concerned about whether having the<br>
TZ project under the UC umbrella would really allow it to &quot;continue<br>
basically as it does now.&quot;  Other projects under UC such as CLDR have<br>
lengthy input/review/release cycles, but the TZ data has to be able to<br>
be turned around quickly due to the unpredictability of time changes in<br>
some countries (Egypt is still fresh in my mind).<br>
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--<br>
Larry Gilbert &lt;<a href="mailto:lgilbert@digium.com">lgilbert@digium.com</a>&gt;<br>
Digium | Switchvox<br>
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On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:48 -0700, Mark Davis ⌛ wrote:<br>
&gt; The officers of the Unicode Consortium (<a href="http://unicode.org" target="_blank">http://unicode.org</a>) have<br>
&gt; discussed this issue, and are interested in exploring hosting the TZ<br>
&gt; efforts. Aside from the Unicode projects, we currently also support<br>
&gt; other independent efforts (<a href="http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/</a>,<br>
&gt; <a href="http://www.unicode.org/udhr/" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/udhr/</a>). Hosting the TZ project would provide<br>
&gt; for mailing list hosting, code distribution, source code repository<br>
&gt; (SVN) if desired, etc., web pages, etc. -- presuming that the<br>
&gt; functioning of the TZ group would continue basically as it does now.<br>
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