Re: [Tzdist-bis] tzdist and IANA

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Thu, 18 July 2019 00:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tzdist-bis] tzdist and IANA
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Ken Murchison wrote:

> "Clients" of the IANA TZDIST server would either be primary or secondary servers 
> and would be fetching ALL changed zones.  There should be no end-user clients 
> talking to an IANA TZDIST server.

True, I was worried more about privacy between clients and the secondary servers.

> There is no way to serve up raw tzdata via TZDIST

Yes, and part of the proposal would be to improve TZDIST so that clients can 
obtain the entire tzdb efficiently. For secure clients there should be little 
reason to request just a subset of tzdb when the entire database is so small.