Network Time Protocol BOF (ntp)

Wednesday, March 9 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 (10 min)
- NTP WG Status and Charter (20 min)
- NTPv4 Scope and Requirements (30 min)
- NTPv4 Protocol Specification (30 min)
- 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

Web page: http://ntp.isc.org/ietf

Mailing list: ntpwg@lists.ntp.isc.org 

DESCRIPTION
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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 (NTP version 3) was published in
March 1992 and remains unchanged and at Draft Standard status.
RFC 1305 represents the majority of full NTP implementations
deployed today. RFC 2030 (SNTP version 4) was published as an
Informational RFC in October 1996 as a lightweight version of NTP
for deployments not requiring the full functionality of NTP. SNTP now
represents the majority of both NTP traffic and NTP implementation
issues on the Internet. A good deal of work has been produced in the
NTP community updating both NTPv3 and SNTPv4. This work is
ongoing and available through the collaborative development effort in
the NTP community, but it has not been reflected back into the NTP
specifications.

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 BOF will
discuss the status of the formation of an NTP WG in the IETF. It will
also address the scope and requirements for NTPv4 along with the
separation of current NTPv4 documentation into separate protocol
and architecture specifications.