[ntp:questions] Re: Router Vendor + NTP

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Sat Jun 11 17:03:41 UTC 2005


Richard,

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/rfc/rfc-xxxx.pdf. The document 
  in Postel ASCII has been on the RFC Editor's queue for almost two years.

Dave

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> David Woolley wrote:
> 
>> In article <vb6dnYDyKeaUeTXfRVn-3A at comcast.com>,
>> Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> If you are using either the NTP or SNTP protocols, you should obtain 
>>> copies of the appropriate RFCs and make sure that you comply with   
>>
>>
>> There are no RFCs for the current NTP.  This has long been a bone of
>> contention.  Basically Dave Mills has been refusing to produce a version
>> without greek letters, mathematical operator symbols, and non-ASCII
>> art diagrams.
>>
>>  
>>
> There is a document on Dave's web page which would be an RFC if certain 
> people didn't insist  on a plain ASCII text format.   It's entirely 
> usable even if it lacks the blessing of the RFC Editor(s).   If Dave 
> says that's the standard, that's the standard!!!!!
> 
> There is an RFC for SNTP though I don't have its number at my finger tips.



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