[ntp:questions] Re: NTP precision

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun Sep 25 04:19:22 UTC 2005


Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 7:40 AM +0000 2005-09-24, David J Taylor wrote:
>> jitter The estimated time error of the system clock measured as an 
>> exponential average of RMS time differences.  (Jitter errors are
>> caused by short-term variations in frequency with components
>> greater than 10Hz).
> 
> 
> I'd rather not have parenthetical comments in these definitions, but
> otherwise, I'm perfectly happy to change the order of these two
> sentences, or make other suitable modifications to them to help
> improve readability and clarity.
> 
> If we can get a consensus as to what any particular definition should
> say, I'll be happy to update them.  Or, for that matter, anyone else
> can update them -- that part of the TWiki web is open to 
> modifications from anyone.
> 
Actually I'd like to see these definitions moved to the NTP WG and
defined in one of the documents that being worked on. It's almost
impossible to get these documents drafted without agreement on terms
like these.

Danny




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