Re: [Ntp] CLOCK_TAI (was NTPv5: big picture)

Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com> Thu, 07 January 2021 00:27 UTC

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> On Jan 6, 2021, at 3:31 AM, Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@meinberg.de> wrote:
> 
>> Such a requirement was that the sysUpTime in MIB2 required a 100Hz (or better) clock.
> 
> It's OK that a specific application has such requirement, but I don't
> think a protocol like NTP should have it.


SNMP isn’t an application either.

-Philip