Timezone Service Protocol
draft-douglass-timezone-service-05

Network Working Group                                        M. Douglass
Internet-Draft                                                       RPI
Intended status: Standards Track                                C. Daboo
Expires: October 15, 2012                                          Apple
                                                          April 13, 2012

                       Timezone Service Protocol
                   draft-douglass-timezone-service-05

Abstract

   This document defines a timezone service protocol that allows
   reliable, secure and fast delivery of timezone information to client
   systems such as calendaring and scheduling applications or operating
   systems.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     1.1.  Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     1.2.  Glossary of terms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   2.  Architectural Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   3.  Timezone Naming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     3.1.  Timezone Identitifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     3.2.  Timezone Identitifier Aliases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     3.3.  Timezone Localized Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     3.4.  Timezone Name Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   4.  Timezones Service Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     4.1.  General Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       4.1.1.  Timezone Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       4.1.2.  Inactive Timezones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       4.1.3.  Conditional Timezone Requests  . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       4.1.4.  Expanded Timezone Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       4.1.5.  Server Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       4.1.6.  Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     4.2.  Server Protocol  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       4.2.1.  Error Responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.3.  Client Guidelines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       4.3.1.  Discovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
         4.3.1.1.  Timezone Service SRV Service Labels  . . . . . . . 12
         4.3.1.2.  Timezone Service TXT records . . . . . . . . . . . 13
         4.3.1.3.  Timezone Service Well-Known URI  . . . . . . . . . 13
           4.3.1.3.1.  Example: well-known URI redirects to
                       actual context path  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
       4.3.2.  Initial Synchronization of All Timezones . . . . . . . 14
       4.3.3.  Subsequent Synchronization of All Timezones  . . . . . 14
   5.  Operation Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     5.1.  "action" Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     5.2.  "format" Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     5.3.  "changedsince" Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     5.4.  "start" Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     5.5.  "end" Parameter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     5.6.  "lang" Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16