Re: [tz] Bug - Statement by Paul Eggert (a TZ Coordinator) on update process not agreeing with IANA sources
At 10:56 26-05-2012, Tobias Conradi wrote:
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"The TZ Coordinator is an IANA Designated Expert"
In my opinion RFC 6557 was an attempt to document some of the details about the "TZ Database" and it is self-contained except for two explicit references about the work. A lot of stuff is left to the discretion of the TZ coordinator. There are some guidelines to allow resolution if there is an extreme case. Regards, -sm
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:22 PM, SM <sm@resistor.net> wrote:
At 10:56 26-05-2012, Tobias Conradi wrote:
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"The TZ Coordinator is an IANA Designated Expert"
In my opinion RFC 6557 was an attempt to document some of the details about the "TZ Database" and it is self-contained except for two explicit references about the work. Maybe your point of view is that of the RFC 6557 authors.
A lot of stuff is left to the discretion of the TZ coordinator. 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/.
The IANA time zone data is referred to by RFC4833, RFC5545, http://cldr.unicode.org/index/bcp47-extension, http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Timezone_Names
There are some guidelines to allow resolution if there is an extreme case. How do you think an extreme case is defined? Is it an extreme case to 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?
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