>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Harlan, My position on ntpdate and sntp has always been clear. Remove David> them both from the distribution and let other folks contribute sntp David> products. Yes, your position has been clear and your opinion has been noted. David> The standards labs in various contries do not recommend the David> NTP reference implementation, they recommend other shrinkwrap David> products. I'd appreciate references on this point. And how it is germane to this discussion? David> There is no need for folks to download the reference David> implementatino only to bring up an sntp product. Yes, which is why the sntp code can be trivially bundled separately. The feedback I have received is that the majority of folks want the distribution to contain both ntp and sntp. David> The matter of concern is an sntp product that strictly conforms to David> the NTPv4 specification as it applies to sntp. There is at least one David> contributor testing the kiss-o'-death rate limit and has apparently David> actually read rfc 2030. On the other hand, there are numerous David> examples of clients that casually violate the rate rules both at David> servers we operate here and at the national labs. Yup. David> What we should be David> doing is supporting those products that play by the rules and that David> are maintained by other players. This depends first on the definition of "we", and then on the definition of "supporting". The people who talk to me want an SNTP implementation from the NTP Project. Nobody is expecting you to ride herd over any SNTP code that may or may not be part of the same tarball that includes NTP. I am mulling over different ideas in this regard. Two obvious ways to go on NTP/SNTP are to have shared code, or completely separate codebases. There is some middle ground regarding "support" libraries. I see difficult tradeoffs with either approach. -- Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
