How not to design a wire protocol

[Hal Murray]

Eric said:
> You yourself advocated that Mode 6 ought to be replaced by an HTTP service on
> TCP port 123. I think that's a good idea, if we can do it. The problem is
> than NTS-KE *also* wants to have TCP 123. 

I don't want the UI side of HTTP in ntpd.


> What that says to me is that whatever service we put on TCP 123 should be a
> metaprotocol that can accommodate both KE and a Mode 6 replacement.   

The TLS layer has that feature.  ALPN.



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