Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat May 21 16:45:53 UTC 2016


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> [pool limit of 100 ms]
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > That's weird.  Why would they have a precision requirement *above* RFC5905's
> > "A few tens of milliseconds"?  You'd think they'd want it to be below that. 
> 
> I think the goal of the pool project has always been good-enough rather than great accuracy.  100 seems like a reasonable cutoff point to me.  What did you have in mind?

I didn't have any particular accuracy goal in mind.  It just seemed odd to pick
a threshold that would make pool sources unlikelly to vonistently meet the
RFC 5905 target.
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