[ntpwg] Testing NTP performance

[Danny Mayer]

TS Glassey wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David L. Mills" <mills at udel.edu>
> Cc: <ntpwg at lists.ntp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [ntpwg] Testing NTP performance
> 
> 
>> Todd,
>>
>> Performance criteria are no more appropriate in a formal NTP
>> specification than they would be in a TCP formal specification.
> 
> Duh... but they are very relevant to trhe use of NTP in production 
> timekeeping environment's, and that was my point. The protocol as you refer 
> to it is a model for exchanging time data but what happens after that is 
> what we are talking about. The Jitter of the local system has little to do 
> with the protocol either in this case.
> 
> Todd

All of which tells us that you don't understand NTP at all. Otherwise 
you would know that all the answers are already there in the statistics.

Danny