Re: Predictable Internet Time

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 18 April 2017 22:20 UTC

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:20:06 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, IETF Discussion Mailing List <ietf@ietf.org>, Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se>
Subject: Re: Predictable Internet Time
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 05:34:11PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> As I said, I want 30-100 years lead time so I can bake the schedule into
> devices and remove a trust dependency.

30 years' lead time for leap seconds?  Can't be done.

Leap seconds depend on events such as earthquakes.

You can estimate their frequency, but you can't estimate when they'll be
inserted.

Nico
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