<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">To put it in perspective, the CLDR project
has thousands of pieces of data in hundreds of languages. The scope
of the CLDR project is vastly bigger than TZ. That being said, I'm
confident that if unicode were to take over tz, then you could still get
VERY quick turnaround when you needed to. I would think this would
be a good move for both TZ and Unicode.</font>
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Regards,<br>
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John C. Emmons</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Unicode CLDR Project vice-chair<br>
Globalization Architect<br>
IBM Software Group, Austin TX<br>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com></font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov</font>
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<td valign=top><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">08/27/2009 02:11 PM</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: New home for time zone stuff by
2012?</font></table>
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<br><font size=3>On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mark Davis ⌛ <</font><a href=mailto:mark@macchiato.com target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>mark@macchiato.com</u></font></a><font size=3>>
wrote:</font>
<br><font size=3>The officers of the Unicode Consortium (</font><a href=http://unicode.org/ target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://unicode.org</u></font></a><font size=3>)
have discussed this issue, and are interested in exploring hosting the
TZ efforts. Aside from the Unicode projects, we currently also support
other independent efforts (</font><a href=http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/ target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/</u></font></a><font size=3>,
</font><a href=http://www.unicode.org/udhr/ target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://www.unicode.org/udhr/</u></font></a><font size=3>).
Hosting the TZ project would provide for mailing list hosting, code distribution,
source code repository (SVN) if desired, etc., web pages, etc. -- presuming
that the functioning of the TZ group would continue basically as it does
now.</font>
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Unicode also host the CLDR - Common Locale Data Repository.<br>
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Although not the same as the TZ data, there is at least some commonality
in theme.<br>
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<br><font size=3>If there is interest in something along these lines, we
can discuss more specifics of what this would look like and then pass a
proposal by our board of directors.</font>
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-- <br>
Jonathan Leffler <</font><a href=mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com target=_blank><font size=3 color=blue><u>jonathan.leffler@gmail.com</u></font></a><font size=3>>
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