Thanks for taking this issue on, Ask. The central thing in your doc that
seems most important is that hardware vendors are told not to hardcode
pool.ntp.org addresses into their systems, but instead point to their
own DNS which then could possibly use the pool. That one level of
indirection will allow all sorts of mischief to be corrected. It'd
really suck if the name "pool.ntp.org" were lost.
I agree with Eugene we should ask vendors to contribute to the pool if
they rely on us for time service. I think it's totally unworkable to
require the end devices themselves to join the pool though. What I'd
like to see a company like Dlink do is contribute servers and/or
finances to the pool. In a casual way; the moment a contract or lawyer
is involved it will be a failure. In the past NTP has mostly survived
because some smart sysadmin in the back room has done the sensible thing
(with two noticeable favours). I think just documenting what the
sensible thing is will continue to work.
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