First round of my stupid questions about NTS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond via devel writes:
> > I don't see any requests from Delta to Charlie.  Of course we have
> > polling from Alpha to Charlie and (unusually) KODs in the
> > other direction.
> >
> >    Bravo                       Delta
> >    NTS client ---------------> NTS server
> >       ^                         ^
> >       |                         |
> >    Alpha                       Charlie
> >    NTP client <--------------> NTP server
> >
> > Does this diagram look correct?
> 
> No.  What the heck is an NTS client supposed to be?

> There is no separation of NTS and NTP server either, an NTS server is
> supposed to answer plain NTP clients with the old style NTP packets. 

That's an NTS-KE server.
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