[ntp:hackers] Announcing the NTP Forum

Brian Utterback brian.utterback at sun.com
Fri Nov 30 14:07:42 GMT 2007


Help me to understand the point. What is the charter for the new group
and how does it differ from the previous ones?

Harlan_Stenn at isc.org wrote:
> It's about time: ISC is creating an NTP Forum (http://ntpforum.isc.org) to
> directly support the Network Time Protocol (NTP) Public Services Project
> (http://support.ntp.org) and the NTP Project (http://www.ntp.org). Together
> these groups offer public education, development, documentation, issue
> reporting, maintenance, support and mailing lists.
> 
> The NTP Project's software is the world's best way to keep the correct time
> on most computers, and is the foundation of accurate network time
> synchronization. As such, it is critical to many social and technical
> functions. An improved NTP will make your life easier because it will:
> 
>     * Streamline national and international regulatory compliance
>     * Increase the accuracy of financial and other transactional records
>     * Enable more effective cooperation with criminal investigations
>     * Improve the customer service experience for customers and staff alike
>     * Reduce technical support hassles 
> 
> The NTP Project has been, to date, a 100% volunteer effort. With the growing
> popularity of NTP it is increasingly difficult to provide the level of
> support and service the community needs with a small group of volunteers.
> 
> At this point we are especially interested in individual members. We will be
> soliciting institutional members over the next few months' time, with an
> official launch of the NTP Forum in the spring of 2008. In the meantime, we
> want to encourage individuals to join, to help get us going and to help the
> many of you who have relationships with the institutions we'd like to have
> join us make sure we are in a position to deliver the value and benefits you
> expect and deserve.
> 
> Help us to give you an even better NTP - go to http://ntpforum.isc.org and
> join today! (Why today? Because if you put it off you'll forget...)
> 
> Harlan Stenn, Programme Manager
> 
> PS - we want to return the favor and help you as much as you are helping
> us. We're considering things like interoperability testing, focused
> discussion groups and implementation certifications for the forum. Let us
> know what you want - we'll listen to you as carefully in that regard as well
> as we will on NTP issues.
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blu

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drive, protect your data from a drive failure or expand your
storage capacity?" - Disk management as it should be.
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