Re: [ietf-privacy] [Tzdist] [saag] Fwd: WGLC for draft-ietf-tzdist-service-05

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sat, 31 January 2015 22:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-privacy] [Tzdist] [saag] Fwd: WGLC for draft-ietf-tzdist-service-05
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Lester Caine wrote:

> some devices such as central heating controllers
> would not need a processor capable of the sort of processing power
> needed to handle that

Even the lowliest central heating controller can easily handle the entire tz 
database, if only to discard unneeded parts as they're received.  We're talking 
kilobytes here, not gigabytes or even megabytes.