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

[Lester Caine <[e-mail]>]

On 31/01/15 08:15, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Consider an internet-connected bedside alarm clock
> 
> Given your comments, I'd think that any such alarm clock should get the
> entire tz database, just as an OS update would.  This would preserve
> privacy better than having the alarm clock query only about updates to
> America/Los_Angeles and Europe/Paris.

As already stated, some devices such as central heating controllers
would not need a processor capable of the sort of processing power
needed to handle that, but would benefit immensely simply from switching
DST setting at the right time. If that needs a 'son of tzdist'
specification then OK but it's those sorts of devices that the 'NOT'
requirements of the charter are directly addressing?

Given that the sort of processing power available today is probably
making that a thin argument, but a substantial number of 'internet
ready' processors do not have a large spare storage capacity even given
how small the TZ database can be compacted ( and don't have leap-second
capable clocks ;) ) many of these are already active on the internet.

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