> On 25 Jul 2018, at 21:52, Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 02:48:16PM -0400, Melinda Shore wrote:
>> Hi, all:
>> 
>> Thanks for an excellent meeting yesterday.  There are a few
>> questions coming out of it that we'll be bringing to the mailing
>> list next week, once most people are home.
>> 
>> The draft minutes have been posted at
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/102/materials/minutes-102-trans-00.
>> Please send comments, corrections, etc. to the mailing list.
> 
> % 4) Fotis Loukos requested that we clarify what we mean by
> %    "current NTP time."  There is no proposed text.  Given
> %    how late this is in the process, if someone doesn't give
> %    us text there's nothing to talk about, so if someone
> %    feels strongly about this they should contribute text.
> %    Nobody expressed concern.  Fotis should produce text, or
> %    we'll drop it.
> 
> ("NTP Time" appears twice in the document.)
> 
> It seems like the concern here is that NTP is a protocol for conveying time
> information from one location/system to another, but there is not
> necessarily a single universal/global consensus "NTP Time".  That is, I can
> run a clock over here with free-running quartz and use NTP to synchronize a
> different machine with it, but it will be quite disjoint from "reality".
> So it seems like we need to indicate what pool(s) of servers are
> authoritative for the time that we want to be using, or just say it's UTC
> or GPS or whatever.

Isn’t there a case, here, for asking the tictoc WG for advice about a canonical 
reference or chunk of text that could be used?

Yrs.,
Robin

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