At 11:24 AM +0200 2005-09-12, Miroslaw Jaworski wrote:
It's not about beeing ashamed if you won't return best possible ntp servers
to an ntp client in Botswana ( mayvbe it's Zimbabwe? Maybe RPA? ).
It's about beeing proud you will deliver better than average servers for
someone in Austria.
Actually, we don't really care about the Austria problem. We
should only be trying to serve sufficiently deep/accurate information
so that people should be able to get their clocks with 50-100ms of
"true", and beyond that we simply should not try to go.
Anyone in Austria can use most any other set of time servers in
Europe, and be reasonably well served. Yes, the clocks might not be
quite as close or as good as you could choose for yourself, if you
iterated over all 200+ servers in the list for Europe, but that's not
the point.
We're not here for the people who are trying to tweak the last
nanosecond out of their clock. We're here for the people who want to
make sure that their clock is at least accurate down to the second,
and anything beyond that is gravy -- but they need to keep in mind
that they might not get gravy next time.
--
Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
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