ntp.conf changes for NTS

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Thu Jan 31 20:33:33 UTC 2019


Yo Eric!

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:18:56 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > Next virtual meeting of the NTP WG is Feb 12.  Maybe we should get
> > some of these issues on their agenda?  
> 
> If there's another revision in process, 

Dunno about that.  All we can do is explain our issues.

> I want to object to the binary
> request format.  Raises endianness issues for no good reason.  Better
> to use something like Motorola S-records for this.

We prolly need to start a doc somewhere for what we want answered.

IMHO I see no issues with the binary format.  Network protocols have dealt
with network byte order for a long time.  I only object to what they
left unspecified or ignored.

RGDS
GARY
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