[ntpwg] Digital Evidence Standards and a statement that this directly effects NTP and its use...

[Shane Kerr]

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Todd,

TS Glassey wrote:
> 
> Google the actual ruling here: 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=lorraine+v+markel&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLF

A massive triumph of legal formalism over common sense, IMHO.

> Bluntly, the world changed a tad on May 4th and while this effort is pointed 
> at the physics of operating NTP, these new controls impact any work with any 
> other Standardized Protocol as well... What this means to people who NTP is 
> a part of their commercial offering, is that they MUST apply these new 
> standards to this code and its support as well, or they must use their own 
> internal code-base's rather than depending on one here. I think this ruling 
> re-set the bar heighth, and it is now much higher - even for an Academic 
> Entity. As to how this effects this WG, we need to build tools that are 
> capable of being used in these key application contexts or this protocol 
> will likely be ultimately replaced.

I'm a little slow this morning... I can't figure out how this standard applies
to NTP. Can you explain what it means, from a protocol and a software point of
view (plain English preferred, technical gibberish okay, no legalese please)?

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Shane
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