Aug. 13, 2013
11:23 p.m.
On 2013-08-13 17:32, Paul Eggert wrote:
David Patte wrote:
Using the political consensus of the UN is the standard way of handling such issues. As we've discovered, that doesn't suffice to prevent major disagreements on this list,
The only reason there is any current debate is a direct consequence of the maintainers refusing to differ the politics to a third party. Had tz accepted UN standards, as had been proposed 4 months ago, this whole discussion could have been avoided. When talking about people and populations, there will always be a political side. The haggling should be done where it is appropriate, at the UN, not on the tz mailing list. --