Normatively citing the TZ database

[Henning Schulzrinne]

Have you considered establishing an IANA registry? I have not talked to 
the IANA folks, but this might seem the longest-term solution. I'd be 
happy to make the necessary inquiries if there's interest.

Paul Eggert wrote:

> At Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:05:31 -0400,
> Jonathan Lennox <lennox at cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>Currently reference [9] refers to <http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm>,
>>which is tz-link.htm from tzcode.  I've been asked, though, whether this is
>>the best way to make reference to the TZ database; and I have to concede
>>that it might not be, since it's dependent on Twinsun's continuing support.
> 
> 
> The only other plausible reference would be to
> <ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/>, but that's a little more forbidding to
> non-experts.  In theory the elsie URL has the same problem as the
> twinsun URL, as the elsie URL depends on NCI's continuing support; but
> it has been around longer.
> 
> You might consider including both URLs.