Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007, Xin Liu wrote:

Ideally, yes, a protocol should not rely on clock synchronization at all. However, to ensure freshness of messages, we don't have many choices, and clock synchronization seems to be the least painful one. So we asked about router clocks on the current Internet. If normally router clocks are synchronized and we have a mechanism to detect and fix out-of-sync clocks, is it reasonable to assume clock synchronization in the rest of our design?

Not without specifying it in the design. adrian