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RE: NTP Md5 or AutoKey?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Nov 4 11:49:21 2008

Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:49:00 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Lincoln Dale <ltd@interlink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <A868F243F1934C26848C2270469A2CFE@ltdbeast>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Lincoln Dale wrote:

> > There is an emerging need to distribute highly accurate time
> > information over IP and over MPLS packet switched networks (PSNs).
>
> good of you to ask. it exists today.
> http://ieee1588.nist.gov/

According to the TICTOC charter, you need more than just IEEE 1588
for accurate time distribution over IP and/or MPLS networks.
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tictoc-charter.html

Tony.
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