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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