[3555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why aren't ISPs providing stratum 1 NTP service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Mon Jul 22 02:23:53 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 02:17:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960721171056.15875E-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> > There are better solutions... and we'd be better off if one of them is
> > standardized and we use it instead.
>
> Is anything like this planned for HTTP 1.1? or 1.2?
> It might be easier to get something like this into a standard if somebody
> hacks up part of the solution and runs it for a while as I described
> with redirects. Then the standards makers can say, "Hey here is a great
> idea and we can solve all these problems with it by incorporating it into
> HTTP 1.2".
Since I don't follow HTTP evolution, so I could be missing something, but for
distributed web service that is transparent to users, you'd need something
that keeps track of RTT at the client level that has some persistance.
-dorian
