Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 18:22:20 +0000 From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>

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The basic idea seemed to have been quite agreeable, but in the end there simply wasn't anyone volunteering to handle the bureaucracy necessary to set up such a small institution. If two or three industrial sponsors would come forward to cover the in the end surely quite marginal running costs of such a small organization, I am sure it would be possible to set up a suitable quotable but not quite sueable body.

Publishing a single-page ISO standard that designates the named organization to be the keeper of the ISO 16xyz time zone database would surely sprinkle sufficient official magic around the entire thing to keep even hard-line bureaucrats happy.

Any reason it can't be IANA? We need to have a VTIMEZONE converter. I do NOT think it is important if the source is ZIC format and converted to VTIMEZONE on demand. -Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug@Royer.COM http://royer.com/People/Doug Text Pager: pager@Royer.com 801 W. El Camino #131 Mountain View, CA 94040 Ham Radio: N6AAW, Aviation: PP-ASEL