[Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: I‑D Action: draft‑ietf‑ntp‑mode‑6‑cmds‑11.txt

>>> Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org> schrieb am 16.02.2022 um 04:07 in
Nachricht
<4f29532c-281c-3002-c968-d121ba7fa03b@nwtime.org>:
> Brian,
> 
> On 2/15/2022 9:57 AM, internet‑drafts@ietf.org wrote:
>> 
>> A New Internet‑Draft is available from the on‑line Internet‑Drafts
directories.
>> This draft is a work item of the Network Time Protocols WG of the IETF.
>> 
>>          Title           : Control Messages Protocol for Use with Network 
> Time Protocol Version 4
>>          Author          : Brian Haberman
>> 	Filename        : draft‑ietf‑ntp‑mode‑6‑cmds‑11.txt
>> 	Pages           : 22
>> 	Date            : 2022‑02‑15
>> 
>> Abstract:
>>     This document describes the structure of the control messages that
>>     were historically used with the Network Time Protocol before the
>>     advent of more modern control and management approaches.  These
>>     control messages have been used to monitor and control the Network
>>     Time Protocol application running on any IP network attached
>>     computer.  The information in this document was originally described
>>     in Appendix B of RFC 1305.  The goal of this document is to provide
>>     an updated description of the control messages described in RFC 1305
>>     in order to conform with the updated Network Time Protocol
>>     specification documented in RFC 5905.
> 
> Yup...
> 
>>     The publication of this document is not meant to encourage the
>>     development and deployment of these control messages.  This document
>>     is only providing a current reference for these control messages
>>     given the current status of RFC 1305.
> 
> I'm curious why you write the preceding paragraph.

Maybe it's like alcohol: Government does not want you to drink, but people
like to do so from time to time ;-)

> 
> Mode 6 is still the preferred way to handle monitoring and control of an 
> NTP daemon.  Mode 6 was designed to be a vendor‑neutral way to 
> accomplish this.
> 
> The only implementation I know of for NTP+SNMP is ntpsnmpd, in the 
> Reference Implementation, and that daemon translates SNMP in to mode 6 
> directives.
> 
> The NTP Yang Data Model is still a draft document, and from what I have 
> seen there is no reference implementation of it.  If and when the NTP 
> Project provides this capability, it will very likely be done the same 
> way ‑ using mode 6 messages to the NTP daemon.
> 
>> 
>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft‑ietf‑ntp‑mode‑6‑cmds/ 
>> 
>> There is also an htmlized version available at:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft‑ietf‑ntp‑mode‑6‑cmds‑11 
>> 
>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft‑ietf‑ntp‑mode‑6‑cmds‑11 
>> 
>> 
>> Internet‑Drafts are also available by rsync at
rsync.ietf.org::internet‑drafts
>> 
>> 
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