First steps towards NTPv5

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Feb 19 03:15:35 UTC 2019


Richard Laager via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Is there a particular reason this needs to be handled right now?

No.  But I had some deasd time wile waur=ing for CI to unjam.  

> For what it's worth, I think this should wait until NTS is done. NTPv5
> is going to require IETF action. Both the NTPsec developers and the IETF
> people should be working on completing NTS before biting off another
> project.

*Implementation* should absolutely wait until NTS is done. But I figured
other people had dead time due to the busted CI, too.  Not a terrible
idea to use it on forward design.
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