Yo Eric! On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 14:38:48 -0500 (EST) "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> Gary, for > example, thinks we need bidirectional management protocols. Do we? I never said, or meant to imply, 'bidirectional'. And 'management' does not capture what I was thinking. Maybe 'coordination'? I see the need for some sorts of communication between NTPD servers and NTS-KE servers. Unclear which direction is optimal, but I don't see bidiretional as required (yet). > I have started a new document, devel/nts.adoc, which is intended to > become internal documentation of our implementation. Good, expect it to be thrashed back and forth for a bit. > What we need is to fill in transaction steps. Presumably the dance > starts with Alpha requesting a secure time feed from Charlie. Seems to me most of the real work must be done before that. And it seems we also need to agree on naming too... > The reason I'm not trying to write down all this myself is in the > signal discussion several smart people were visibly confused about > what data needed to be going where; this made me nervous that, alone, > I might wander off into a cul-de-sac that doesn't match the actual > requirements. +1 RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 g...@rellim.com Tel:+1 541 382 8588 Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas? "If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it." - Lord Kelvin
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