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Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?Q?Ask_Bj=C3=B8rn_Hansen?=)
Thu Dec 22 19:11:23 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: =?utf-8?Q?Ask_Bj=C3=B8rn_Hansen?= <ask@develooper.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 16:11:09 -0800
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <0422ebbf-ea2c-b21b-9f69-a47b181fa4a2@nwtime.org>
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> On Dec 20, 2016, at 8:02 PM, Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org> wrote:
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>> On 12/20/16 7:27 PM, Laurent Dumont wrote:
>> To be honest, the fact that NTP is still something managed by =
volunteers
>> and not a regulated entity (a bit like DNS) is mind boggling.
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> Time *is* managed by regulated entities - the National Time Labs.
That was pretty clearly not what Laurent was talking about.
> And Network Time Foundation's NTP Project (the reference =
implementation
> for NTP) could do lots more if we had a useful budget.
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> Folks pay money for DNS registrations. There's no revenue stream =
around
> "time".
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> Help us get enough support to NTF, and we'll have the staff and
> infrastructure to do more for folks.
What does the NTF have to do with the NTP Pool (or the =E2=80=9Crecent =
NTP pool traffic increase=E2=80=9D)?
The NTP Pool is run by volunteers, as you very well know. Both the =
management and DNS system and the thousands of people who contribute =
their NTP service to the system. (And we manage on a pretty scarce =
budget).
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