esr: kill it nigel: thank you very much
..m On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:28 PM Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > Putting this on the record on the devel list... > > Nigel Roles <[email protected]>: > > On 16/06/2016 12:10, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > >You're listed as the last person to touch the Arcron clock driver in > NTP. > > > > > >Does the hardware for which this driver was made still exist? What, > > >if anything, can you tell me about it? > > > > > >If this driver is a fossil I want to remove it. > > > > Eric, > > > > There may be hardware around, but you can't buy it, and mine long ago > went > > to land-fill. > > > > I say remove it. > > > > Nigel > > > > In a followup mail, Nigel adds: > >Actually you did ask what I could tell you about it.... it was a serially > >connected MSF/Colorado/DCF receiver. Mine was headless, but you could get > ones > >with displays. This is all that is left of the name: > >http://www.radiocontrolledclock.com/aratwa.html. It worked very nicely > in the > >days when I only had dial up Internet. > > For values of "worked" equaling samples at 300bps and 63ms of jitter, > heh. The doc page warns: "By default this clock reports itself to be at > stratum 2 rather than the usual stratum 0 for a refclock, because it > is not really suited to be used as other than a backup source." Indeed, > a $30 GPS can do nearly two orders of magnitude better. > > Internet search does not turn up even the faintest trace of these > things. (Other than lots of hits in old NTP documentation, that is.) > I think this tells us they passed out of use before 2006. > > I'm going to say this is 1.5KLOC of dead weight and goes *PLONK*. Mark, > this is just a hair more aggressive than our previous policy about > legacy hardware that might still *conceivably* be running somewhere, but > the last maintainer just told us to shoot it. > > Nigel: we're NTPsec, a security-focused fork of the Mills > implementation. A main thrust of our technical strategy is to strip > out as much legacy and dead code as possible to reduce attack surface. > With what you just advised us to drop I think we'll get to 59% of the > old code removed. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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