<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 1, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Garrett Wollman <<a href="mailto:wollman@csail.mit.edu" class="">wollman@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><<On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:37:36 +0300, Dzmitry Kazimirchyk <<a href="mailto:dkazimirchyk@gmail.com" class="">dkazimirchyk@gmail.com</a>> said:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">If it is an official IANA position on the matter, I am very <br class="">disappointed.</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">...</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">I don't believe that IANA has an official position here; IANA hosts<br class="">the database but does not maintain it.<br class=""></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">For the avoidance of doubt, there is no official IANA position. As noted, IANA is the host of this resource but it is maintained collaboratively by the community of contributors here, lead by the IESG-designated TZ Coordinator who is currently Paul Eggert. It is officially documented in RFC 6557, “Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database”, available at <a href="http://www.iana.org/go/rfc6557" class="">http://www.iana.org/go/rfc6557</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Kim Davies</div><div class="">Internet Assigned Numbers Authority</div><div class="">ICANN</div></div></body></html>