Uh oh: TZ database down, in legal battles?

http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html

This is bad.  We need an IETF/Oasis/etc standard for this data.  I don't want to have to deal with multiple competing timezone data.  It's nontrivial at best, and often very difficult, to deal with different timezones and daylight savings issues, let alone historically.

What a nightmare this could turn out to be.