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.
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.
Mark
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 isbeing followed.)
On 27 June 2010 18:15, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
<olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
I would still maintain that the CLDR environment is by far the best> It seems to have been overly ambitious to find both a new host and a new maintainter for the time
> zone stuff at the same time. So, one thing at a time. Who has insights on a workable options
> for new host(s) for the mailing list and the software distribution?
fit for this data. It manages all data to do with cultures and is used
by all the vendors who also use the tzdata. I also believe they
offered to accept us last time this was discussed.
Stephen
Spec-lead JSR-310