Network Time Protocol BOF (ntp)

Thursday, November 11 at 1300-1500
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CHAIRS: Brian Haberman (brian@innovationslab.net)
        Karen O'Donoghue (odonoghuekf@nswc.navy.mil) 

AGENDA:

- Introduction and Agenda Bashing (5 min)
- Problem Statement, Scope and Status Overview (10 min)
- General Discussion (20 min)
- Proposed WG Charter (10 min)
- Charter Discussion and Wrap-up (15 min)

Recommended References:
- RFC 2030 Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4
for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI (Status - Informational)
- RFC 1305 Network Time Protocol (Version 3)
Specification, Implementation (Status - Draft Standard)
- NTPv4 Documentation at UDEL (TBS)

Web page: TBS

Mailing list: TBS


NTP WG DRAFT CHARTER
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Description of Working Group:

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely deployed and used in the
Internet. However, the standardization status of this protocol has
lagged in the IETF. RFC 1305 was published in March 1992 and remains
unchanged and at Draft Standard status. A good deal of work has been
produced in the NTP community over the years, but this work has not
been reflected back into the NTP specification. The goal of this
working group is to update the NTP protocol specification and advance
the standardization status of NTP based on the extensive work from
the NTP community.

A number of topics have been raised as potential work items for an
update to NTP including support for IPv6, security considerations,
automatic configuration, and algorithm improvements. This working
group will identify modifications and additions to the NTP protocol,
document what is in the scope of this update, and produce a series of
updated NTP specifications.

The working group will complete the following tasks:
- Produce an NTP Protocol Specification
- Produce an NTP Algorithms Specification
- Produce an NTP MIB

Goals and Milestones:

Mar 2005 Initial Draft of NTP Protocol Specification
May 2005 Initial Draft of MIB Specification
Jul 2005 Initial Draft of NTP Algorithms Specification
Mar 2006 WG Last Call NTP Protocol Specification
May 2006 WG Last Call NTP MIB Specification
Jul 2006 WG LAST Call NTP Algorithms Specification