Re: [Dtls-iot] Secure Time (again)

Michael StJohns <msj@nthpermutation.com> Wed, 12 August 2015 15:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dtls-iot] Secure Time (again)
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On 8/12/2015 11:17 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> They really aren't trying to solve a problem in a manner that would
>> >have applicability to IOT.
> I actually attended a tictoc meeting a couple IETFs ago and presented
> the IoT time sync problem to them.  They were unaware of the issue and
> considered it an interesting problem to try to solve.
>
> We should continue to engage them!
>

Charter creep is usually a bad thing.    I'm not saying not to do it, 
but it might actually be better to go to NTP (which Karen also chairs) 
and which is probably a better stepping off point than the IEEE PTP that 
Tictoc is working on.  It's probably that NTPv4 could incorporate IoT 
functionality better than Tictoc.

And for nothing else than a cool acronym, standing up an IOT integration 
working group  (e.g. to have a place to talk about all the pieces and 
how they can come together) might be even a better choice -> Interim 
Designs for the Internet of Things -> idiot.

Later, Mike