[Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Draft rechartering text for NTP working group

[Ulrich Windl <[e-mail]>]

Sounds good IMHO.

>>> Karen O'Donoghue <[e-mail]> schrieb am 24.07.2021 um 14:50 in
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> Below is draft text for the rechartering of the NTP working group. Please 
> review and comment. This will be on the agenda for next week’s meeting.
> 
> Regards,
> Karen and Dieter
> 
> Good quality time is a key component of all modern systems, devices, and 
> applications. This quality time requires reliable and accurate network time

> synchronization over modern IP‑based networks.  The Network Time Protocols 
> working group is focused on enhancing existing network time synchronizsation

> protocols, such as the Network Time Protocol (NTP), and specifing new
network 
> time related protocols or extensions for purposes which the existing 
> protocols are not well suited to address.
> 
> NTP was first defined in the IETF in RFC 958 in 1985. It has been through 
> several iterations in the IETF. The latest, NTPv4 (RFC 5905) was published
in 
> 2010.  Today it is the most widely used time synchronization protocol for
the 
> synchronization of clocks of various digital systems including computers, 
> networks, and a myriad of devices. Despite NTP's wide‑spread success it has

> become apparent that it needs further development in order to adequately
meet 
> the modern requirements of time synchronization protocols and to meet the 
> increasing security threats of the Internet.
> 
> The working group will continue to to address the maintenance of NTPv4 
> including extensions and corrections. This includes the introduction of a 
> interleave mode in order to enhance the accuracy of the network time 
> synchronization and the introduction of alternative selection algorithms in

> order to enhance robustness against delay attacks.
> 
> Despite its increasing importance, NTP remains vulnerable to many types of 

> attacks. Therefore, in 2020 the working group published Network Time
Security 
> (NTS) as RFC 8915. NTS extends NTP with an authentication approach to ensure

> authenticity of NTP time servers and protects the integrity of exchanged NTP

> packets. The working group will work on extending NTS to cover the remaining

> modes of service for NTP not covered by the initial version. The working 
> group will also work on extending NTS for PTP(1) in collaboration with the 
> IEEE 1588 working group.
> 
> The working group shall also develop an updated version of NTP (preliminarly

> known as NTPv5) addressing a number of identified weaknesses. The new 
> specification shall comprise of a set of documents, in order to distinguish

> between the on‑wire protocol engine and the timing engine of NTP clients and

> servers.  The updated version of NTP will address the security requirements

> specified in RFC 7384 and leverage the work completed in RFC 8915.
> 
> Finally, the working group, will address other network time related 
> protocols in the IETF (e.g. Roughtime).
> 
> (1) PTP is the Precision Time Protocol as defined by the IEEE 1588. The 
> latest version is IEEE 1588‑2019 ‑ IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock 
> Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems.