[189169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue May 10 11:02:10 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:59:02 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <7376.1462891948@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:52:28AM -0400,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote
a message of 37 lines which said:
> Note that they *do* have motivation to keep it working, simply
> because so much of their *own* gear (from gear for individual
> soldiers all the way to strategic bombers and aircraft carriers)
> wants a working GPS signal...
Yes, but they may switch it off for civilian use (by going encrypted,
for instance) at any time, if it is better for *their* operations.
