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

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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 ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2015-06-17. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
> 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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