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Re: [Ntp] NTPv5: big picture

Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> Fri, 01 January 2021 21:57 UTC

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doug.arnold@meinberg-usa.com said:
> I would say that the unifying themes for ntpv5 are greater flexibility, and
> higher accuracy, compared to ntpv4.   

Do you have any ideas on how to improve accuracy?

What are you thinking of for flexibility?  There has been a lot of pressure to 
require feature X.  Examples are TAI-UTC offset and authentication.  That 
seems like reducing flexibility.

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