Re: [Ntp] Finding leap-seconds.list

[Jared Mauch <[e-mail]>]

> On Nov 8, 2018, at 4:24 AM, Harlan Stenn <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> By default, the "update-leap" script in the Reference Implementation
> queries:
> 
>   https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list
> 
> H


This may be poor behavior updating it from a source that perhaps isn’t well maintained.

I was the one at the mic advocating that without a document saying it is hosted at IETF it should go away.

What this also means is that if someone writes up a doc saying it should live at the IETF that would remove my primary concern.

There are the secondary issues of what NTP implementations use it.  I would like to know if it’s just FreeBSD users that fetch it and the frequency, etc.

I suspect it’s not often, and if the file is not well maintained, publishing it at the IETF without documenting how and when it’s updated may actually make things worse if we don’t prescribe some procedure to maintain it.

If it’s a relic of a single implementation (whatever form/type it is), perhaps it’s best for them to maintain the document and update it at their site.  It’s also perhaps too late, but if this file is so important, is it described in the BCP for operating NTP, or is this yet another esoteric NTP thing that’s not well documented so ends up being inconsistently used?

I would be interested in seeing an implementation report for who uses it.  (I would also perhaps argue that freebsd-update is not really a consumer of it).

- Jared