On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 03:52:22PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> % 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.
My guess is the authors mean "current time" and "use NTP to get current
time". If they mean anything else then that should be clarified for
sure. Even if that's what they mean, it would be easy enough to make
that change, even as late as AUTH48.
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