[ntpwg] Issues with the NTP draft -06

[Danny Mayer]

Brian Haberman wrote:
> 
> Danny Mayer wrote:
>> Heiko Gerstung wrote:
>>> I would say that the refid is no security related data object. I agree
>>> that the MAC address and IP can change, but I do not see any bad
>>> implications here, at least not for the operational status.
>> I agree. I just want to get away from the idea that we SHOULD use IPv4
>> addresses (or IPv6 addresses MD5-summed). Just because the reference
>> implementation uses that doesn't mean that everyone else should do so.
>> The value can be anything as long as it's relatively unique.
> 
> Given that the task at hand is documenting what NTPv4 is today, what
> implementations *do not* use the IPv4 address or the hashed IPv6 address
> as the refid?  I don't see the benefit of trying to retrofit this type
> of change into the protocol spec trying to be advanced.
>

Not quite. The task is to document what an implementor needs to do, not
what the reference implementation does. I have no idea what other
implementations do.

Danny

> Regards,
> Brian
>