First round of my stupid questions about NTS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> 
> Achim said:
> > 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.  
> 
> I think there is confusion on the names and/or the way chunks of code get 
> packaged.
> 
> NTS is short for NTS-KE, not a NTP that supports NTS,  NTP is short for a 
> system that supports NTP with NTS and probably old NTP requests too.
> 
> The current ntpd is both client and server.  The diagram shows them in 
> separate boxes.  Note that the NTP client talks to a NTP server in a different 
> system so there has to be some communication.

Achim, I confirm that Hal is correct in all of this.
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