[ntpwg] KISS codes

[Danny Mayer]

Odonoghue, Karen F CIV NSWCDD, W13 wrote:
> Danny and Harlan,
> 
> I was wondering about this issue earlier today as I was working through 
> all the comments received. My question is based on other discussions on
> this mailing list related to whether or not we are representing 
> current practice. Along that vein, would it make sense to change
> "MUST" to "SHOULD" in Danny's proposed text? I can go either way
> but I was struggling with identifying the consensus...
> 

My preference here is MUST since revisiting this in a later RFC is much
harder. It's actually easier to change it to SHOULD later. My desire to
see this implemented as a MUST for both NTP and SNTP is the experience
that a number of clock providers have been through where they have been
swamped with unwanted and heavy traffic. If we don't put it in the
standard not only will noone implement it but we will never give the
providers any control over who is querying their servers and how frequently.

Right now there is no consensus about this either way since it never
seems to have been discussed.

Danny
> Karen
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ntpwg-bounces+karen.odonoghue=navy.mil at lists.ntp.org 
>> [mailto:ntpwg-bounces+karen.odonoghue=navy.mil at lists.ntp.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Harlan Stenn
>> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 0:15
>> To: mayer at gis.net
>> Cc: NTP Working Group
>> Subject: Re: [ntpwg] KISS codes
>>
>> Danny,
>>
>> In general, I really like your proposal.  I haven't said 
>> anything about it because I'm not aware of any reasons it's a 
>> bad idea and that concerns me.  I figure there *has* to be 
>> some cases where what you describe inappropriate.
>>
>> For how long must a server stop sending packets to the server in this
>> case:
>>
>> a) For kiss codes: DENY, RSTR the client MUST demobilize any 
>>    associations to that server and stop sending packets to that 
>>    server;
>>
>> Is it a good idea to better define the "reduction" mentioned here:
>>
>> b) For kiss code: RATE the client MUST immediately reduce its polling 
>>    interval to that server and continue to reduce it each time it 
>>    receives a RATE kiss code. 
>>
>> H
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