[ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) OptionsforDHCPv6

[TS Glassey]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Utterback" <Brian.Utterback at Sun.COM>
To: "TS Glassey" <tglassey at earthlink.net>
Cc: "Ted Lemon" <mellon at fugue.com>; <ntpwg at lists.ntp.org>; <dhcwg at ietf.org>; 
"Richard Gayraud (rgayraud)" <rgayraud at cisco.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) 
OptionsforDHCPv6


> TS Glassey wrote:
>>
>> I still don't know that the service is needed I have heard a couple of 
>> people mandate that they think this is necessary but in actuality I still 
>> haven't heard anything that makes this mandatory. Especially since 
>> without any pain at all its pretty easy to create a set of known NTP 
>> servers and just use the local DNS service to propagate these. WKS inside 
>> of DNS is a simple method that is time tested.
>>
>> Todd
>
> Okay, so your suggestion is to not have a DHCP NTP field at all, but to 
> have
> the clients use WKS and DNS resolution to find servers. Fair enough.

Yes and no. My suggestion is that the DCHP system could be used if it also 
had some reliable names which were predefined.

My real suggestion is that we need a Time and Trust Service Discovery 
protocol which would work sort of like how DHCP and DNS work but that also 
allows for critical events to be pushed forward as well. This would also 
work for CRL and OCSP type queries to satisfy validity of the underlying 
certificate source.

Todd

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