Hello, thank you all for your answers. I fully understand that, with so much usage around the world, we can consider we have empirical evidence. This was mostly a theoretical question and I do not want to "upset" anyone by implying I do not trust the implementation.
On Tuesday, 14 January 2014 05:23:10 UTC+8, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > I guess any implementation could be tested for synchronisation against > > the reference implementation, but how do you prove that the reference > > implementation is correct? > > > What happens (and some view this as a bug while others view it as a > feature) is that the development version of the reference implementation > gets to a point where folks say "Time for a new standard", and then > folks write the Standard based on the implementation in the code. Then > more folks very carefully study both the code and the proposed standard > and reconcile any differences. At some point the Standard goes as far > as it can (the V3 was only a *draft* standard) and we keep working on > the codebase. Eventually the codebase *will* do some things differently > than the standard, and we do expect that these differences will become > part of the next version of the NTP Standard. Thank you for the explanation, that is very informative. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
