Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list

[Thomas Peterson <[e-mail]>]

Apologies, please allow me to clarify.

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. If that was a subject I 
wished to propose it would have been raised in a more appropriate forum 
such as the tz mailing list.


Regards


On 08/11/2018 21:39, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/7/18 6:49 PM, Thomas Peterson wrote:
>> * The IETF ceases to host unpacked versions of tzdb
>
> I'm not sure exactly what is being proposed here. That being said, the 
> tzdb distribution <https://www.iana.org/time-zones> is not going to 
> remove the leap-seconds.list file. That file is used by tzdb itself 
> and (like it or not) many downstream packages depend on it. Whatever 
> problem you're trying to solve, removing leap-seconds.list can't be 
> part of the solution.
>
> A couple of the suggestions in this thread have also been made in the 
> tz mailing list, and have been rejected because they have problems.
>
> * Other "far more authoritative sources" for the leap-seconds.list 
> file have been unreliable in practice: for example, they use FTP 
> servers that are often unavailable. I've had to wait weeks to get the 
> file in some cases.
>
> * tzdb cannot use the leap second file directly from the IERS because 
> that file is copyrighted, whereas leap-seconds.list is public domain.
>