* tz-link.htm: Retitle "formats" section to "protocols"

and update it in the light of the tzdist effort.
Mention Microsoft Windows alongside other OSes.
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<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul">
<meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David">
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-08-11">
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-08-26">
<meta name="DC.Description"
content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time">
<meta name="DC.Identifier"
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ title="Advanced Interactive eXecutive">AIX</abbr></a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_10">BlackBerry 10</a>,
<a href="http://www.apple.com/ios/"><abbr
title="iPhone OS">iOS</abbr></a>,
<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/">Microsoft Windows</a>,
<a href="http://h71000.www7.hp.com/">Open<abbr
title="Virtual Memory System">VMS</abbr></a>,
<a href="http://oracle.com/database">Oracle Database</a>,
@@ -187,8 +188,17 @@ calculates the current time difference between locations.</li>
also contains data about time zone boundaries; it supports queries via place
names and shows location maps.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other time zone database formats</h2>
<h2>Network protocols for <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> data</h2>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">Internet Engineering Task Force</a>'s
<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tzdist/charter/">Time Zone Data
Distribution Service (tzdist) working group</a> is developing a scalable
protocol for distributing time zone data to clients. It has generated a
a <a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tzdist-service/">draft
protocol for transferring time zone data</a> and a <a
href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tzdist-caldav-timezone-ref/">draft
protocol for transferring time zone data by reference</a>. This work is based
on the iCalendar and CalConnect efforts described below.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545">
Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
(iCalendar)</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 5445)
@@ -208,16 +218,11 @@ Consortium</a> is promoting further work in this area. <a
href="http://calconnect.org/publications/icalendartimezoneproblemsandrecommendationsv1.0.pdf">iCalendar
TIMEZONE Problems and Recommendations</a> offers guidelines and
recommendations for the use of VTIMEZONE and <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>.</li>
<li>CalConnect's <a href="http://calconnect.org/tc-timezone.shtml">TIMEZONE
Technical Committee</a> has developed
a <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-douglass-timezone-service-11">draft
time zone service protocol</a> along with a <a
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-daboo-caldav-timezone-ref-01">draft
extension</a> to the <a href="http://caldav.calconnect.org/">CalDAV
calendar access protocol</a> to allow time zone information to be exchanged
by reference. The committee's earlier <a
<li>The <a
href="http://calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendationsv1.0.pdf">Timezone
Registry and Service Recommendations</a> discusses a
Registry and Service Recommendations</a> of CalConnect's
<a href="http://calconnect.org/tc-timezone.shtml">TIMEZONE
Technical Committee</a> discusses a
strategy for defining and deploying a time zone
registration process that would establish unique names for each
version of each <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> zone, along with a polygonal
@@ -380,7 +385,7 @@ href="http://users.skynet.be/Peter.Verthez/projects/intclock/">International
clock (intclock)</a> is a clock that displays multiple time zones on
<abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux and similar systems. It is freely available
under the <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li>
<li><a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/">Microsoft Windows</a> 8.1
<li>Microsoft Windows 8.1
and later has <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> data and <abbr>CLDR</abbr>
data (mentioned below) used by
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime">Windows Runtime</a>