Re: [Ntp] New Version Notification for draft-gruessing-ntp-ntpv5-requirements-03.txt

[Miroslav Lichvar <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 04:50:52PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote:
>     > For NTPv5 to be successful in replacing NTPv4, I think it needs to
>     > support no authentication, symmetric keys and NTS.
> 
> NTPv4 and NTS are not going to go away in the next few years.  I see no reason why NTPv5 has to support them, other than coexist.  It's more like IPv4 and IPv6 than it is like TLS 1.0/1.1 and TLS 1.2/1.3 in my view.

I think it's the latter. NTPv4 has a number of issues that were
identified and need to be fixed. That's the reason why I wrote my
draft. But now it seems there are people trying to turn NTP into
something else, with different ideas how an ideal protocol for time
synchronization should look like, but making it less practical, not
covering the common NTPv4 use cases.

Would it make sense to put this effort on a separate path and call it
NTPv6 or something else?

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Miroslav Lichvar