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Re: [Ntp] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-ntp-interleaved-modes-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Hal Murray <halmurray+ietf@sonic.net> Tue, 20 July 2021 19:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Robert Wilton's Discuss on draft-ietf-ntp-interleaved-modes-05: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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mlichvar@redhat.com said:
>> (2) Change the document status to Informational rather than Standards Track,
>> modifying the text to focus on documenting how some implementations work
>> rather than as an endorsement from IETF that this is the right way to modify
>> the NTP protocol.

> I'd prefer the second choice. Would anyone from the WG oppose that? 

I'd be happy with that.

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The draft should probably say something about NAT.  draft 06 says:

    The server MAY separate the timestamps by IP addresses, but it
  SHOULD NOT separate them by port numbers to support clients
  that change their port between requests, as recommended by
  [I-D.ietf-ntp-port-randomization].

If I understand things correctly, that will work if one and only one system is 
going through a NAT box and get complicated when a second system joins in.  
That might be an interesting test case.



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