Subject: Re: technical discussion around draft-ietf-netmod-iana-timezone

From: SM <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:17:09 -0800

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