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[Ntp] Re: Grease in Roughtime

Marcus Dansarie <marcus@dansarie.se> Mon, 23 September 2024 20:48 UTC

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Thanks for the comments!

I just made a pull request on Github 
(https://github.com/ietf-wg-ntp/draft-roughtime/pull/4) that should 
clarify how grease is used in Roughtime. It also addresses most of 
Martin and Kristof's comments.

On 2024-09-17 13:52, David Venhoek wrote:
> First of all, regarding the ver tag, there is no requirement for
> servers to ignore unknown versions in that tag. this means that
> technically it is valid behavior right now for a server receiving
> unknown versions to reject that packet, even if there is version
> overlap. This seems highly undesirable

I don't think I fully understand the problem you are describing here 
however. Could you give an example?

Kind regards,
Marcus

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