Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list

[Paul Eggert <[e-mail]>]

On 11/8/18 5:01 PM, Thomas Peterson wrote:
> This discussion is around putting forward a suggestion of action for 
> the IETF's hosting of tzdb on IETF infrastructure as no published 
> specification mandates so. There is no discussion here to remove 
> "leap-seconds.list" from the tzdb distribution.

Right, and that's where I don't know exactly what is being proposed 
here. Let me try to clarify. Currently tzdb is published at 
https://www.iana.org/time-zones which has many subsidiary URLs such as:

* https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz is the 
latest tzdb release as a compressed tarball.

* https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/zone1970.tab is the latest tzdb 
release of a list of timezones as a text file

* https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list is the latest 
tzdb release of the leap-seconds.list file under discussion in this thread.

Are these URLs considered to be "the IETF's hosting of tzdb"? That is, 
is there a suggestion that the IETF stop hosting these files at this 
location? If so, we'll need to prepare a transition strategy for a 
different hosting location for tzdb, because we can't reasonably remove 
the leap-seconds.list file from tzdb for the reasons previously discussed.

Or, if these URLs do not count as "the IETF's hosting of tzdb", then why 
has this topic come up recently?