[Ntp] My thoughts on flags

[Watson Ladd <[e-mail]>]

Dear all,

One of the items on the agenda that didn't really discussed was a
number of drafts: draft-stenn-ntp-i-do-06,
draft-stenn-ntp-extension-fields-09,
draft-stenn-ntp-leap-smear-refid-00. All of them are masterworks of
repurposing fields, adding structure to hitherto unstructured
identifiers, and other tricks beloved of

And none of them are necessary. Autokey should be dispenced with now
that we have NTS. An NTS-KE exchange can easily be extended to include
information about server features, and in event of changes a rejection
of cookies can force a new NTS-KE exchange. This exchange can also
include smeared time, which wouldn't be necessary if we represented
timestamps in a format like MJD+seconds since midnight or somesuch
(even UTC if properly understood).

I would like to see us adopt the attitude of the web community where
new features are gated on TLS support to spur adoption.

Sincerely,
Watson