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Re: [Ntp] Antw: Re: Updates to draft-stenn-ntp-extension-fields

Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org> Mon, 11 December 2017 20:22 UTC

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From: Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Antw: Re: Updates to draft-stenn-ntp-extension-fields
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On 12/11/17 5:31 AM, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> sorry for jumping in so late.
> 
> I just read RFC-7822
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7822
> 
> as well as Harlan's proposal for a replacement of that RFC
> https://github.com/hstenn/ietf-ntp-extension-field.git
> 
> IMO Harlan's proposal is very detailed and profound, and provides the
> reader with quite a bit of information about potential pitfalls in
> implementations.
> 
> It also sounds like it's backward compatible with existing NTP
> implementations, which is very important, and on the other hand pretty
> flexible.
> 
> Harlan,
> 
> is there an implementation of this proposal which has been or can be
> tested in real operation?

Thanks for the feedback, Martin!

Yes, I've been running an implementation of this for several/many
months' time.  This code will likely be published in January.

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Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org>
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