Unicode Consortium (Re: New home for time zone stuff by 2012?)

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Thu Aug 27 18:33:19 UTC 2009


<<On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:22:10 -0700, Larry Gilbert <lgilbert at digium.com> said:

> I was about to suggest this, but am concerned about whether having the
> TZ project under the UC umbrella would really allow it to "continue
> basically as it does now."

I would be somewhat concerned about putting tzdata under the
"umbrella" of any organization, no matter how well-meaning, that has
an agenda other than maintaining this information for the public
benefit.  Even ISC, who would be an obvious candidate, has issues.

-GAWollman



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