Interleaved Mode (Was: Re: Using Go for NTPsec)

[Daniel Franke]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 1:40 PM Richard Laager via devel
<devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/5/21 8:38 AM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> >> There is a close-to-RFC to handle this area.  "Interleave" is the buzzword.  I
> >> haven't studied it.  The idea is to grab a transmit time stamp, then tweak the
> >> protocol a bit so you can send that on the next packet.
>
> > Daniel discovered it was broken and removed it from the protcol machine.
>
> Broken implementation or broken design? If the latter, is the current
> IETF proposal (wherever that is) still broken?

It was a completely broken implementation of a seriously flawed
design. See https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ntp/u5D_-IIeFVnj2j_PMvbW-48nd8Y/
for my critique of the proposed standard.