[ntp:hackers] Updated core protocol document

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Mon Feb 6 21:49:49 UTC 2006


Brian,

See the list of briefings on the NTP project page. The link for the 
current status of the ntpv4 specification project reveals a directory of 
current stuff. The document you want is

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/brief/flow/ntp4.pdf

Dave

Brian Utterback wrote:

> David L. Mills wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> The core protocol specification is nearing final markup stage. I have 
>> yet to cross check every little detail, and that is a painful 
>> process. The PDF is on the project page. If you intend to prowl 
>> through it, but have scarfed the original copy, better replace it 
>> with this one, which will be uploaded overnight.
>>
>> I had to toss in a core specification for the clock filter algorithm. 
>> The reason for this is that multiple implementations will need to see 
>> the statistics calculated by the clock filter in a consistent way; 
>> otherwise, the possibly different mitigation algorithms could make 
>> wildly different selections and there would be no way to compare 
>> their performanc.
>
>
> I still cannot find the document. Do you have a URL?




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