Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG adoption
Daniel Franke <dfoxfranke@gmail.com> Tue, 01 June 2021 20:50 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG adoption
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On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 4:34 PM Steve Guendert <Steve.Guendert@ibm.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am the IBM Z (IBM mainframe servers) time synchronization architect and > engineering lead. I have been following the thread with great interest > because our mainframe customers are quite interested in the subject. 95 of > the 100 largest banks in the world run their mission critical applications > on IBM mainframes leading many to say the world's economy runs on IBM > mainframes. They are the largest data center environments in the world. > Time synchronization accuracy, resiliency, and security are top of mind for > their CIOs and CTOs. I am usually quiet on these threads. However, since > you are debating something that is of critical urgency to my customers, on > their behalf I am "chiming in". > > Many of you whom also work for "vendors" have these very same customers as > your own customers for your products. > > These IBM mainframe customers are/will be implementing *unicast* PTP for > their mainframe environments. What to do for time synch security (PTP and > NTP) is the big question. While the core business applications run on > mainframes, these same customers have extensive open systems environments > as well, much of which could be running NTP. > > I talked with the largest American multinational bank about this topic > early last week , and earlier in May with our 40 largest mainframe > customers across all industries and geographies. The proposal off NTS4UPTP > and its ideas is very important to our customers because they see 1) PTP as > a vital part of their future, 2) the idea provides a PTP security solution > and 3) as I said earlier, they will still use NTP for some things and the > proposal would essentially allow them to use a common security mechanism > for both NTP and PTP. *A solution that secures only NTP and leaves out > PTP is not acceptable to them. * *It would leave the mainframe time synch > environment unprotected. * > Now, you may be thinking, well those mainframe environments will just go > back to/stay with NTP. Guess again. What will happen is we will be forced > to develop something on our own for PTP that meets their needs. Standards > based is much preferable to proprietary, but you do what the customer > demands. > > Too many times, standards bodies seem to focus on "politics" or protecting > things/ideas we may have worked on in the past or personalities. Most of > you don't know me and I don't know you. I'm just here as someone with > intimate first hand knowledge of what a lot of big end users of time > synchronization want to tell you that there are a lot of very large end > user companies who would benefit greatly from adopting the proposal under > discussion. > > Therefore, on behalf of IBM's mainframe customers I would like to ask for > support of the adoption of NTS4UPTP Rev 3 > What are the desiderata of "secure PTP" in your view and that of your customers? What must it guarantee, and what adversaries must it guarantee them against?
- [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG ado… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Kai Heine
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal reque… kristof.teichel
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal r… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal r… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Danny Mayer
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Danny Mayer
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Danny Mayer
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal reque… kristof.teichel
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Steve Guendert
- [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal reque… kristof.teichel
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Daniel Franke
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal r… Daniel Franke
- [Ntp] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 -… kristof.teichel
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Langer, Martin
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Doug Arnold
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Doug Arnold
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Doug Arnold
- [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal re… Ulrich Windl
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal r… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal r… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal r… Salz, Rich
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Doug Arnold
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Greg.Dowd
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal reque… kristof.teichel
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal r… Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Doug Arnold
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] NTS4UPTP Rev 03 - Formal request for WG… Miroslav Lichvar
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev … Heiko Gerstung
- Re: [Ntp] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: NTS4UPTP Rev … kristof.teichel