Re: [Ntp] I-D Action: draft-ietf-ntp-mode-6-cmds-11.txt

Brian,

On 2/15/2022 9:57 AM, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Network Time Protocols WG of the IETF.
> 
>          Title           : Control Messages Protocol for Use with Network Time Protocol Version 4
>          Author          : Brian Haberman
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-ntp-mode-6-cmds-11.txt
> 	Pages           : 22
> 	Date            : 2022-02-15
> 
> Abstract:
>     This document describes the structure of the control messages that
>     were historically used with the Network Time Protocol before the
>     advent of more modern control and management approaches.  These
>     control messages have been used to monitor and control the Network
>     Time Protocol application running on any IP network attached
>     computer.  The information in this document was originally described
>     in Appendix B of RFC 1305.  The goal of this document is to provide
>     an updated description of the control messages described in RFC 1305
>     in order to conform with the updated Network Time Protocol
>     specification documented in RFC 5905.

Yup...

>     The publication of this document is not meant to encourage the
>     development and deployment of these control messages.  This document
>     is only providing a current reference for these control messages
>     given the current status of RFC 1305.

I'm curious why you write the preceding paragraph.

Mode 6 is still the preferred way to handle monitoring and control of an 
NTP daemon.  Mode 6 was designed to be a vendor-neutral way to 
accomplish this.

The only implementation I know of for NTP+SNMP is ntpsnmpd, in the 
Reference Implementation, and that daemon translates SNMP in to mode 6 
directives.

The NTP Yang Data Model is still a draft document, and from what I have 
seen there is no reference implementation of it.  If and when the NTP 
Project provides this capability, it will very likely be done the same 
way - using mode 6 messages to the NTP daemon.

> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ntp-mode-6-cmds/
> 
> There is also an htmlized version available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-ntp-mode-6-cmds-11
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ntp-mode-6-cmds-11
> 
> 
> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
> 
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