[193243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allan Liska)
Fri Dec 30 20:06:33 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:08:50 -0500
To: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net>,
"Laurent Dumont" <admin@coldnorthadmin.com>
From: "Allan Liska" <allan@allan.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161230181948.GA28243@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/30/2016 at 1:20 PM, "Majdi S. Abbas" wrote: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.
In the United States that would the United States Naval Observatory
(USNO) Master Clock (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/). You can read more
about it here:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/demetrios-matsakis-and-the-master-clock
allan
