[ntp:hackers] Standardizing NTP...

[mayer]

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> 
> My point is not to fight with anyone here, but rather to build
> something that allows me to continue my admittedly commercial
> interests, in packaging and designing interoperability models in
> global (national timing services) solutions.
> 

There's nothing wrong with having a commercial interest in this.
Most successful protocols have commercial interests usually as
a result of their sucess.

> What I propose is that I am willing to work to create the audit
> profiles and controls as well, and that by merging all of these
> efforts, there is a way to make NTP self supporting...
> 

Yes, we need some definitions and ways of verifying that an
application that claims to be NTP "compliant" actually complies
for some meaning of "compliant". Getting to the definition
of what that means is the hard part.

Danny