Re: [netmod] consensus all: timezone-location and draft-ietf-netmod-iana-timezones-03

[Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

As suggested by Tom, here's a proposal for the new typedef, which will
go into the ietf-system module:

  typedef timezone-name {
    type string;
    description
      "A timezone name as used by the Time Zone Database, sometimes
       referred to as the 'Olson Database'.

       The exact set of valid values is an implementation-specific
       matter.  Client discovery of the exact set of time zone names
       for a particular server is out of scope.";
    reference
      "RFC 6557: Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database";
   }


We also realized that we were calling the feature and the leaf
"timezone-location", and this is not correct.  So we propose we rename
the feature and leaf to "timezone-name".   (The timezone has a name in
the database, and the name is often a location; but some names like
"Etc/GMT-1" are not locations.)

So with these changes, this the new definition:

OLD:

        case timezone-location {
          if-feature timezone-location;
          leaf timezone-location {
            type ianatz:iana-timezone;
            description
              "The TZ database location identifier string
               to use for the system, such as 'Europe/Stockholm'.";
          }
        }


NEW:
        case timezone-name {
          if-feature timezone-name;
          leaf timezone-name {
            type timezone-name;
            description
              "The TZ database name to use for the system, such
               as 'Europe/Stockholm'.";
          }
        }


/martin & andy