[ntpwg] Issues with the NTP draft -06

[Brad Knowles]

On 6/23/07, TS Glassey wrote:

>  The same quality of integrity is required in the prevention of timing loops
>  so that the logs of actions documented therein are believable.

The whole "Guaranteed Bet The Entire Budget Of The Entire World For 
The Entire History of Humanity Super Hyper Duper Nuclear Crypto 
Authenticated Audited Can't Be Broken In The Entire Lifespan of the 
Entire Universe No Matter How Many Advances There Are In Quantum 
Mathematics" type of solution is not one that we are trying to 
address at the moment.

At the moment, we're just trying to address the issue of a somewhat 
better way of selecting a refid that will help reduce the probability 
of a timing loop, based on what we know of current limitations on how 
the refid is generated from a single IP address and how current 
networking technology tends to cause single IP addresses to migrate 
from one machine to another or one site to another, or where a single 
machine might have more than a single IP address.


We'll solve that other problem at some other time.

All IMO, of course.

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>