[Tzdist-bis] Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif-15: (with COMMENT)
Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> Wed, 24 October 2018 04:56 UTC
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Subject: [Tzdist-bis] Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif-15: (with COMMENT)
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Ben Campbell has entered the following ballot position for draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif-15: No Objection When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this introductory paragraph, however.) Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMENT: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I share Spencer's confusion about whether this is documenting something that exists, or if it is defining new things. I think a section with a little background, and possibly an explanation of the history of the 3 mentioned versions, would be helpful. (Note that, if the answer is that it is defining (some) new things, I kind of wish this had been a working group document. But I'm not going to push that point this late in the process.) I agree with Adam's concern about privacy. Are there any use cases where a TZIF object might be associated with a person? (For example, I know people who run scripts to insert their current time zone in their XMPP status.) If so, that might imply geolocation information, which is definitely privacy sensitive. Otherwise, I have a few editorial comments: §3: "... data specific to version N+1 either typically appears after version N data..." Does "typically" imply "not always? I realize there are two choices in the paragraph, but are there cases where neither are true? §4: "These recommended practices should be followed..." That language seems to weaken the MUST in the second bullet.
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