Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list

[Thomas Peterson <[e-mail]>]

I was intending to keep the scope of this discussion solely on what is 
hosted under the ietf.org domain. There also does not appear to be links 
from the IANA time zone page you link nor from any of the downloads that 
contain specific reference to the second and third links in your email, 
so could you please clarify how those are announced?

As has already been discussed in other parts of this thread around the 
FreeBSD usage, if the decision is for the IETF to cease serving tzdb 
data under ietf.org domains, I would expect there to be a transition 
strategy including appropriate comms sent out, which I would be happy to 
assist with.


Regards


On 09/11/2018 01:35, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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?
>