There are a few issues we need to resolve. The biggest is how NTPv4 is going to co-exist with the current xntpd in Solaris. Some of the programs in the version 3 distro already in Solaris have been modified by Sun over the years and it would be difficult to add the functions to the version 4 code and we couldn't just drop the current functionality for backwards compatibility reasons. The most obvious example is the the addition of a mutlicast client mode in ntpdate.
Also, now that we are going to offer multiple methods of keeping a systems clock in sync, it would be nice to have a single SMF service and choose what method to use on the fly, either automatically or by setting SMF service properties. Another thing, in the next day or so, the new configuration code will be going into the ntp-dev branch, which will make the config file format radically different and not compatible. So, do we use /etc/inet/ntp.conf for both or use different config files entirely. So, lets see if we can get a discussion going on these issues. Also, we need to produce man pages for all of the public deliverables, such as ntpd, ntptrace, ntpdc, ntpq, etc. I thought it might be interesting to try to do some of this collaboratively via Google docs. It doesn't appear that you can share a file generally to anybody, so if anybody wants to help out with that effort, please just send me your email address and I will add you to any of the documents created there. Thanks. Brian Utterback
