Re: Last Call: <draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif-13.txt> (The Time Zone Information Format (TZif)) to Proposed Standard

tom petch <daedulus@btconnect.com> Thu, 13 September 2018 11:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif-13.txt> (The Time Zone Information Format (TZif)) to Proposed Standard
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My arithmetic may be letting me down, but in s.3.2, when there are
'typecnt' entries in a list of transition types, then I would expect the
index to be
[0, 'typecnt'-1)
or
[1, 'typecnt')
but not
[0, 'typecnt')
as the I-D says, unless zero has a special meaning but then it is not
really an index.

Ditto for (desig)idx  and charcnt except that this list is NUL
terminated, but then I would not expect it to be valid to index the NUL.

I infer, and would rather be told explicitly, that
"The total number of octets is specified by the 'charcnt' field ..
excludes the NUL that terminates the list.

In s.1,
"the source the time zone data  metadata, identifiers, ..."
would appear to be light of an 'of'.

Tom Petch

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> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to
consider the
> following document: - 'The Time Zone Information Format (TZif)'
>   <draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif-13.txt> as Proposed Standard
>
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final
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> Abstract
>
>    This document defines the Time Zone Information Format (TZif) for
>    representing and exchanging time zone information, independent of
any
>    particular service or protocol.  Two MIME media types for this
format
>    are also defined.
>
> The file can be obtained via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif/
>
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif/ballot/
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