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Subject:    [ntp:hackers] Philosophy of use... The clash between the physicists
From:       "TS Glassey" <tglassey () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2008-04-01 15:22:27
Message-ID: 008301c8940c$33c3fda0$6501a8c0 () tsg1
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FWIW, I think that one of the  things that this WG is becoming more and more 
aware of is that the Industry as a whole doesn't give a damn about precision 
time-keeping, what they do care about is a process which allows them to 
provably synchronize their distributed time to the same set of 'standards' 
as it were, and to do so in a manner that meets both the existing and the 
emerging audit/proof model requirement's for provable electronic 
recordation.

They also care whether the evidence model is first or third-person in form, 
but that's a different issue that speaks for itself as it were. That said, I 
want to propose that the WG take as a formal task the production of a 
'minimum competence standard for the operations of a NTP resource' and an 
additional one for the operations of a SNTP resource. Said document would 
include a performance specification for what a minimal server should do, and 
how precise it needs to be kept to be an operating time source.

As to why?  - the ETSI produced a formal standard for the operation of a 
Commercial or Private Timing Authority in compliance with the EU's Privacy 
and Data Integrity Directives, and we need the same for NTP Server's 
themselves. So what I am proposing is a formal document that would address 
the use and minimum operating requirement's for a 'proper time service'.

Todd Glassey 

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