[ntpwg] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ntp-ntpv4-proto-05.txt

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Tue May 22 19:21:15 PDT 2007


Brian,

Hold the train; I picked up the wrong version. Version -05 appendix is 
okay. Sorry about that.

Dave


David L. Mills wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Further checking the latest draft reveals the appendix is all messed 
> up. Some tabs (spaces) are mutiliated and some pages are truncated. I 
> spent a lot of time reformatting the original version and verified 
> Harlan's initial draft preserved the formatting. This may be the same 
> thing that happend in the original draft and I later painstakingly 
> repaired.
>
> Further reports may be expected.
>
> Dave
>
> Brian Haberman wrote:
>
>> All,
>> This version of the protocol specification incorporates all
>> comments received to date (to my knowledge). Please review. My plan is
>> to start a working group last call on this document in the next week 
>> or so.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> Internet-Drafts at ietf.org wrote:
>>
>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>>> directories.
>>> This draft is a work item of the Network Time Protocol Working Group 
>>> of the IETF.
>>>
>>> Title : Network Time Protocol Version 4 Protocol And Algorithms 
>>> Specification
>>> Author(s) : J. Burbank, et al.
>>> Filename : draft-ietf-ntp-ntpv4-proto-05.txt
>>> Pages : 108
>>> Date : 2007-5-11
>>>
>>> The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize
>>> computer clocks in the Internet. This document describes NTP Version
>>> 4 (NTPv4), which is backwards compatible with NTP Version 3 (NTPv3)
>>> described in RFC 1305, as well as previous versions of the protocol.
>>>
>>> It includes a modified protocol header to accommodate the Internet
>>> Protocol Version 6 address family. NTPv4 includes fundamental
>>> improvements in the mitigation and discipline algorithms which extend
>>> the potential accuracy to the tens of microseconds with modern
>>> workstations and fast LANs. It includes a dynamic server discovery
>>> scheme, so that in many cases specific server configuration is not
>>> required. It corrects certain errors in the NTPv3 design and
>>> implementation and includes an optional extension mechanism.
>>>
>>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ntp-ntpv4-proto-05.txt
>>
>>
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