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[Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: draft‑ietf‑ntp‑roughtime‑05: tag change makes implementation more complex

Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> Mon, 04 October 2021 07:19 UTC

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From: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
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Subject: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: draft‑ietf‑ntp‑roughtime‑05: tag change makes implementation more complex
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>>> Danny Mayer <mayer@pdmconsulting.net> schrieb am 26.09.2021 um 18:24 in
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> According to the diagram in Section 6, you do specify the length of the 
> message. I'm not clear why you are wasting 8 bits at the beginning to 

you mean "8 bytes"?

> say 'ROUGHTIM', what else would it be? You are better off using that 
> space to specify roughtime versioning information.
> 
> Danny

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