[tz] Beginner's help request

[Paul.Koning at dell.com]

> On Oct 15, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Michael Douglass <mikeadouglass at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> While the tzdist protocol is http and does not (yet) handle zoneinfo format it does seem a long way towards what you're talking about.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7808
> 
> The main impediment (I believe) to handling zoneinfo data is coming up with a standard format in an rfc

I don't understand that.  Standardizing encoding of interchange data is one of the two main topics for any RFC.

	paul