Re: [Tzdist] Protocol Action: 'Time Zone Data Distribution Service' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-tzdist-service-11.txt)

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

Dave, Cyrus, Daniel, and WG,

Congratulations on this accomplishment.  One down and one to go.

Eliot


On 7/23/15 6:48 PM, The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has approved the following document:
> - 'Time Zone Data Distribution Service'
>   (draft-ietf-tzdist-service-11.txt) as Proposed Standard
>
> This document is the product of the Time Zone Data Distribution Service
> Working Group.
>
> The IESG contact persons are Ben Campbell, Barry Leiba and Alissa Cooper.
>
> A URL of this Internet Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tzdist-service/
>
>
>
>
> Technical Summary
> This document defines a time zone data distribution service that
> allows reliable, secure and fast delivery of time zone data and leap
> second rules to client systems such as calendaring and scheduling
> applications or operating systems.
>
> Review and Consensus
> Issues have been methodically tracked and addressed. The individual draft came
> through 11 revisions and once adopted as WG document, the WG draft came
> through 7 additional revisions. They were among 22 open issues. All these issues
> have reached rough consensus on the mailing list.  In addition, the document was
> also reviewed on the saag, app-discuss, int-area, ops-area and ietf-privacy mailing
> lists.
>
> As a result of the numerous addressed issues with a strong consensus, the initial
> proposal has significantly changed from its initial version.  Among the changes are
> 1) leap seconds, 2) redesign of the API, 3) historical data management has been
> considered, 4) security and privacy both in design and considerations section.
>
> Personnel
> The document shepherd is Daniel Migault. The responsible Area
> Director is Barry Leiba.
>