[193238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Fri Dec 30 14:36:32 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:19:48 -0500
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net>
To: Laurent Dumont <admin@coldnorthadmin.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ef1d708-5302-15df-23fb-b942f1651af1@coldnorthadmin.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:31:08PM -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote:
> 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.
Who's authoritative for time? Even the national labs aren't --
UTC is figured well after the fact.
Thing about the pool is -- you may use it, you don't have to.
You're welcome to provide your own services, including to your
customers.
There has to be one sole DNS -- there isn't one sole source of
time.
--msa
