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Shepherd writeup
draft-ietf-tzdist-service

1. Summary

The document is "Time Zone Data Distribution Service" [1] from M. Douglass and
C. Daboo. The Working Group is TZDIST. The document shepherd is Daniel Migault.
The responsible Area Director is Barry Leiba.

This document defines the protocol for time zone and leap second distribution.

2. Review and Consensus

a) Addressed Issues

In my opinion, all issues have been addressed, and there are no remaining open
issues. Issues have been tracked in the data tracker, and all issues have been
closed. The WG has been notified of the last version of the draft no issues
have been raised so far.

Issues have been methodologically tracked and addressed. The individual draft
came through 11 revisions and once adopted as WG document, the WG draft came
through 7 additional revisions. They were among 22 open issues. All these
issues have reached the WG consensus on the mailing list. In addition, the
document was also approved on the saag, app-discuss, int-area, ops-area and
ietf-privacy Mailing lists.

b) Strong consensus

In my opinion, I believe a strong consensus has been reached, and the last
version results in global agreement from the WG as well as from the person
raising the issue. As far as I know none believes the current version does not
address one issue it has raised.

Consensus was reached as we spent a significant amount of time to expose and
address the different issues. The WG was pretty much active, with around 80
discussion threads and 15 active participants. There were no face to face
meeting during IETF regular meetings, but two phone conference meetings have
been set on 2014/10/24 and 2014/12/18.

As a result to the numerous addressed issues with a strong consensus, the
initial proposal has significantly changed from its initial version. Among the
changes are 1) leap seconds, 2) redesign of the API, 3) historical data
management has been considered, 4) security and privacy both in design and
considerations section.

3. Intellectual Property

Each author has confirmed conformance with BCP 78/79. There are no IPR
disclosures on the document.

4. Other points

I-D nits shows a downref: Normative reference to an Informational RFC: RFC
2818.  This is a very common reference and is already in the downref registry.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tzdist-service/
[2] http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/iesg/trac/wiki/DownrefRegistry
[3] http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2818/referencedby/

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