At 08:21 16-01-2014, Paul Eggert wrote:
Martin Bjorklund wrote:
why is this a problem?
Because people often use names that are not in zone.tab.
Just today, for example, someone asked on the tz mailing
about Asia/Calcutta, a name that's not in zone.tab but which
does work. Although Asia/Calcutta was formerly in zone.tab
and so could presumably rely on a proleptic application of
whatever deprecation procedure the YANG maintainers want to
establish, some commonly-used names have never been in
zone.tab -- US/Pacific is one example.
More generally, there is a political burden in coming up
with a "canonical" list of names. This is a long story, one
that's connected to conflicts between Israelis and
Palestinians, between the Serbs and the Croats, etc. If the
YANG maintainers, whoever they are, want to address this
problem, more power to them; but it's not a burden the TZ
coordinator should have to take up.
At 09:42 16-01-2014, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> Palestinians, between the Serbs and the Croats, etc. If the
> YANG maintainers, whoever they are, want to address this
> problem, more power to them; but it's not a burden the TZ
> coordinator should have to take up.
I am pretty sure noone wants to address this problem. Again, we just
want a version of zone.tab expressed in YANG.
I agree with what Paul Eggert wrote (see message at
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg85386.html for
the political aspect). The NETMOD Working Group could choose YANG
maintainers to do the work instead of pushing the political burden to
the TZ coordinator.
Regards,
-sm