NTS client configuration support has landed

[Eric S. Raymond]

Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> On 2/1/19 9:19 AM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> > Having a separate nts config statement would have required admins to
> > enter the name of a server to which secure connection is intended
> > twice, once in the server declaration and once in the nts declaration.
> > This was suboptimal design, inviting subtle configuration bugs due to
> > typos.
> 
> I don't know what was in nts.adoc, but the proposal on the list was
> certainly that NTS associations used _only_ nts, not server + nts.

Yes.  Gary journaled that to nts.adoc.

If there's a good semantic reason to have a separate nts statement, I
can do that. But I don't presently know of one.  A request for secure time
service has to reference an NTP server, yes?
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