[189171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Tue May 10 11:25:58 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20160510145902.GA29833@nic.fr>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:23:03 -0500
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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That would be a very poor idea, since a lot of the circuits the DoD
still uses to communicate with are ATM lines :)
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
