[tz] Bug - Statement by Paul Eggert (a TZ Coordinator) on update process not agreeing with IANA sources

[Dafydd Rhys-Jones]

I think the politics needed to be taken offline, and we should return to using this thread to monitor and update timezone changes around the world.

Thanks,
Dafydd

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-----Original Message-----
From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Conradi
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11:13 AM
To: tz at iana.org
Subject: Re: [tz] Bug - Statement by Paul Eggert (a TZ Coordinator) on update process not agreeing with IANA sources

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Eliot Lear <lear at cisco.com> wrote:
> On 5/27/12 12:18 AM, SM wrote:
>> At 13:53 26-05-2012, Tobias Conradi wrote:
>>> Maybe your point of view is that of the RFC 6557 authors.
>>
>> I can only express my view as an individual.  I don't know whether 
>> the authors of RFC 6557 share my point of view.
>
> This one does,
>>
>>> But I wonder whether IANA doesn't want to have some say about what 
>>> happens in a project linked from the IANA homepage 
>>> http://www.iana.org/.
>>
>> At a guess some information about IANA actions may be in Section 8 of 
>> RFC 6557.
>
> IANA doesn't set the policy.  Rather they take policy direction from 
> the IETF.
I think many IETF volunteers would be surprised if they see how bugs are treated in the time zone database.

>>
>>> have Russian zones wrong for more than half a year and to have no 
>>> zone covering Bouvet Island, which has a UTC offset defined by 
>>> Norwegian law?
>> How do you think an extreme case is defined? Is it an extreme case to
>>
>> I leave it to the time zone community or Paul Eggert to see whether a 
>> case is extreme as it is easier than coming up with a definition.  In 
>> my opinion the above examples seem more of a matter for Paul Eggert 
>> to decide or the time zone community to agree upon.
>
> Bingo.
I think many IETF volunteers would be surprised if they would see Paul Eggert being the judge in a controversy between Paul Eggert and others.




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