On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:31:13AM +0000, Robin Wilton wrote: > > > 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?
Seems likely. Are the chairs interested in making such a request? -Ben
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