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Re: [ntpwg] Antw: Re: call for adoption (draft-dfranke-ntp-data-minimization)

Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org> Tue, 28 March 2017 06:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ntpwg] Antw: Re: call for adoption (draft-dfranke-ntp-data-minimization)
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On 3/27/17 11:05 PM, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>>> Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> schrieb am 27.03.2017 um 15:38 in
> Nachricht <20170327133842.GK8192@localhost>:
>> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 09:52:11PM +0000, Karen O'Donoghue wrote:
>>> We agreed to adopt this at the last IETF meeting, but we didn’t actually
> 
>> issue a call for adoption.
>>>
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-dfranke-ntp-data-minimization 
>>
>> Just a minor issue, but I'd like to ask the group to consider setting
>> the precision field to 32 instead of 0 to make it clear that the
>> timestamps are completely random in the original sense that only bits
>> below precision can be random. This might be useful in debugging and
>> traffic analysis.
> 
> What's the problem with 0?

It means "our clock/timestamps are accurate to 1 second" and for the
data in the timestamp, that's not true.

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Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org>
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