What I mostly meant is that there should be a regulated, industry-wide effort in order to provide a stable and active pool program. With
Ah, but who do you trust? Trump, Putin, or Xi's clock? That said, we use a Stratum2 clock for our AS, which syncs using GPS at $dayjob. So... I guess we trust Trump's clock. Perhaps there's a market for a device that takes GPS, GLONASS, and Beidou, and references the three for sanity checks in the event of $unforseen_circumstance. Assuming such a thing were possible - admittedly I know little about GLONASS, and even less about Beidou. "Perhaps some kind of death clock?" -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+emille=abccommunications.com@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Allan Liska Sent: December-30-16 11:09 AM To: Majdi S. Abbas; Laurent Dumont Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase On 12/30/2016 at 1:20 PM, "Majdi S. Abbas" wrote:On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:31:08PM -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: the
current models, a protocol that is widely used by commercial devices is being supported by the time and effort of volunteers around the world.
Who's authoritative for time? Even the national labs aren't -- UTC is figured well after the fact. In the United States that would the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) Master Clock (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/). You can read more about it here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/demetrios-matsakis-and-the-master-clock allan