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Re: [Tzdist-bis] [calsify] tzdist and IANA

Daniel Migault <daniel.migault@ericsson.com> Thu, 18 July 2019 14:26 UTC

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From: Daniel Migault <daniel.migault@ericsson.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:26:22 -0400
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To: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
Cc: Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@burnicki.net>, IETF-Calsify <calsify@ietf.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, tzdist-bis@ietf.org, Michael Douglass <mikeadouglass@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Tzdist-bis] [calsify] tzdist and IANA
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:40 AM Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On 18 Jul 2019, at 10:29, Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@burnicki.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Eliot Lear wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> While the IANA does a great job at servicing our assigned number needs
> >> and delivering the TZ database to developers, they is not set up, nor do
> >> they have *any* experience, to handle the load that end clients could
> >> place on them.  Moreover, they are in no position to support millions of
> >> people if something goes wrong.  And make no mistake: something will go
> >> wrong.  I would be okay with a limited tzdist service for those who are
> >> going to be distributing the data themselves, but the order of receivers
> >> should be on 100s not millions.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be nice to have an infrastructure similar to what the NTP
> > pool provides for time synchronization?
>
>
> I guess I would want to see commitment from those who provide TZ service
> to their customers today to go to such a new service before investing a lot
> of money.  Would Red-hot, Apple, Microsoft, Debian, Ubuntu, or any of the
> others want to use it?  I also realize that ICANN is well positioned to
> fund this sort of thing, but it is not clear to me that it is right for
> them to do so.  There has to be a real need, and those who really need it
> perhaps should foot the bill.
>

If these companies are on the list it would be good they share their
thoughts, otherwise it would be good to contact them if any of you have
some contacts.
Yours,
Daniel

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> Eliot
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