[ntpwg] [TICTOC] Errata for RFC 5905

Dave Hart davehart at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 21:37:34 UTC 2011


I agree the errata is correct.

Dave Hart

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 17:06, David L. Mills <mills at udel.edu> wrote:
> Danny and the WG,
>
> Agreed; that is correct..
>
> Dave
>
> Danny Mayer wrote:
>
>> Errata for RFC 5905. Section 7.4 b. needs to be fixed. The word
>> reduce ("reduce its polling interval") should be increase ("increase the
>> polling interval").
>>
>> The full sentence is as follows:
>>
>>  b.  For kiss code RATE, the client MUST immediately reduce its
>>      polling interval to that server and continue to reduce it each
>>      time it receives a RATE kiss code.
>>
>> This should read:
>>
>> b.  For kiss code RATE, the client MUST immediately increase its
>>      polling interval to that server and continue to increase it each
>>      time it receives a RATE kiss code.
>>
>> The server is saying that you should ask for packets less often and not
>> more often.
>>
>> Danny
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