[Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: New Version Notification for draft‑gruessing‑ntp‑ntpv5‑requirements‑03.txt

[Ulrich Windl <[e-mail]>]

>>> Miroslav Lichvar <[e-mail]> schrieb am 19.10.2021 um 09:35 in
Nachricht <YW51K0w2UeOjY3g0@localhost>:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 04:50:52PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote:
>>     > For NTPv5 to be successful in replacing NTPv4, I think it needs to
>>     > support no authentication, symmetric keys and NTS.
>> 
>> NTPv4 and NTS are not going to go away in the next few years.  I see no 
> reason why NTPv5 has to support them, other than coexist.  It's more like 
> IPv4 and IPv6 than it is like TLS 1.0/1.1 and TLS 1.2/1.3 in my view.
> 
> I think it's the latter. NTPv4 has a number of issues that were
> identified and need to be fixed. That's the reason why I wrote my
> draft. But now it seems there are people trying to turn NTP into
> something else, with different ideas how an ideal protocol for time
> synchronization should look like, but making it less practical, not
> covering the common NTPv4 use cases.
> 
> Would it make sense to put this effort on a separate path and call it
> NTPv6 or something else?

I think we are still in the discussion phase, not in the implementation
phase.
Let's make a "good version", not a "quick version".

> 
> ‑‑ 
> Miroslav Lichvar
> 
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