ntp.conf changes for NTS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond via devel writes:
> > Still not textual.
> 
> I'm not sure why you'd insist on textual representations, but ASCII-Hex
> is something I'd frown upon.  S-Records in particular is something that
> was useful for ROM dumps, but not wire-protocols.

Eyeball-friendliness matters. Avoiding endianness screwage matters

I'm not insistent on S-records, but experience shows that binary wire
protocols are brittle and an all-too-fertile source of downstream
defects.  If I get to design NTPv5 I will *not* repeat that mistake.

I like JSON datagrams a lot these days.
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