[ntp:hackers] RFC-2030 update

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Fri Jul 25 22:24:35 PDT 2003


David,

I did fix the famous typo in the roundtrip delay calculation. That gaffe 
was easily the targer of thousands of angry respondents. Mea culpa.

Dave

David J Taylor wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "David L. Mills" <mills at udel.edu>
>To: "David J Taylor" <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk>
>Cc: <hackers at ntp.org>
>Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [ntp:hackers] RFC-2030 update
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>>David,
>>
>>Obviously, my zing at Windows was purposely contrived to irritate the
>>hell out of them due the XP gaffe. I may or may not leave the zing in
>>the final draft depending on my state of mind at the time. At least it
>>caught your attention, which is what I had in mind.
>>
>>Dave
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>
>Yes, I realised that was probably the intention, and that you did have
>some justification for your comment!  What I didn't check, but meant to,
>was the delay and round-trip formulae!
>
>Cheers,
>David
>  
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