[193193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Homburg)
Fri Dec 23 16:50:35 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Philip Homburg <pch-nanog-1@u-1.phicoh.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:31:08 -0500 ."
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:21:42 +0100
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>What I mostly meant is that there should be a regulated, industry-wide
>effort in order to provide a stable and active pool program. With the
>current models, a protocol that is widely used by commercial devices is
>being supported by the time and effort of volunteers around the world.
My employer has a budget 'for the good of the Internet' So I'd suggest that
people involved in NTP (certainly pool) submit proposals.
Likewise, there are country code DNS registries that are non-profits
and have budgets for research, etc. Given that time is important for
DNSSEC, it maybe worth contacting them.
