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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-tzdist-service-08.txt> (Time Zone Data Distribution Service) to Proposed Standard

2015-06-17 15:11:41
Hi Patrik,

Just a question on one of your two points:

On 6/17/15 8:17 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
On 3 Jun 2015, at 15:21, The IESG wrote:

The IESG has received a request from the Time Zone Data Distribution Service 
WG (tzdist) to consider the following document:
- 'Time Zone Data Distribution Service'
<draft-ietf-tzdist-service-08.txt> as Proposed Standard

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final 
comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the 
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I have two comments that neither should be blocking for this draft to be 
published, but I encourage IETF/IAB to take the issues serious because one 
day we will be bitten by this. I have been following the evolution of this 
since I was Area Director and while I think the tzdist work is something that 
should have been done from day one of the iCal work, I do not think we are 
done yet.

Good: Personally I have been pushing for not having TZ definitions in the 
events themselves, but instead have then referenced since the iCal spec was 
an I-D. In those days, I was in the rough side of rough consensus, so it is 
good to see things go in the right directions at last :-)

Steps for improvement: The references to the timezones is by the TZID, and 
that is good, but I think most parties when deciding on an event pin it to a 
geographical location, like city/country or so in some combination. Because 
of this I think ultimately a reference should be in the form of a location 
that the tzid service should be able to resolve to the correct TZ definition 
(i.e. time + location gives TZ definition).

How do you want user-facing client behavior to change?  I'm not sure I
see that.

Thanks,

Eliot


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