In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ask Bjørn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Priority 1: Make sure the number of servers in the pool grow > steadily; or at least as fast as our client base. I strongly agree with this. > Priority 2: a) Allow clients to specify "give my server in my > country". b) Allow servers to indicate they only want clients in > their country. > > Priority 3: Give lazy/simple configurations better servers. As Joel points out, what tends to be much more important is network topologically close connections, and continent/country/timezone groups are very crude approximations. I also disagree that making it easy for simple configurations should have a lower priority. Keeping things simple is one of the main goals of the NTP pool project! As far as I can see, the major point of "priority 2" *is* a simple configuration. Most people know what country they are in, and that makes configuring to use the pool easier. On the other hand, having the right timezone configured for their computer is probably more important to most people than having their clocks set to within a minute. Timezone setup is part of almost all OS configuration processes and is easily available to most programs. Timezones are generally match up with national boundaries when those boundaries are important. Keeping things simple, making things easy to configure correctly, and make it easy to check to see that things are configured correctly are all very important. -wayne _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
