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

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 31 January 2014 20:26 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] consensus all: timezone-location and draft-ietf-netmod-iana-timezones-03
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 05:45:32PM +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> 
> I think you do have a valid point.  It is probably be better to have
> one fixed version of the enumeration standardized.  But the problem is
> how this module would be maintained.  Apparently the database changes
> too often for being maintained in RFCs.  And there also seems to be
> a political dimension to it that I don't think we are prepared to
> handle.  And if we simply publish an RFC with the current version of
> the names from the database, what does it mean that the
> IANA-maintained db differs?
> 

I completely fail to understand which value an RFC with an almost
immediately outdated list of TZ names has. I would then rather prefer
to code my manager to use my local list and be prepared that names can
be rejected.

/js

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