At 2:22 PM +0200 2005-09-12, Mark Lijftogt wrote:
Isn't it true, that for the amount of ntp servers in the Netherlands,
and the amount of users and people with a little experience to set up an
ntp server without the exact knowledge of maintaining one (which should
not be a problem) goes hand in hand with the amount of users?
I believe that you are right, in that the higher the ratio of
publicly advertised NTP servers to general population, the higher the
relative number of people in that country who have the necessary
knowledge to maintain such a server. At least, I believe that there
is a high correlation between these two factors.
However, I'm not sure that I understand how this relates to the
issue being discussed. Can you enlighten me?
If we are, and we feel that we need to give every part of the world that
we can serve an equal good list of good ntp servers, we should not be
looking at this from a national point of view, but more or less from a
boundry less approach.
Insofar as this statement goes, I generally agree with the
principle of going with boundaries specified at a much higher level
than individual countries.
Tare the European continent apart, and create based uppon two or three
area's closeby (geo).
England, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Sweden
Netherlands, Spian, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switserland
Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Italy
But to do this and to make the effort worth-while, I think you'd
have to have reasonably intimate knowledge of the routing between the
various countries, and as has been said before, that kind of network
topological state can (and does) change on a moment-by-moment basis.
I think we're better off just throwing all the European countries
(at least, the Western European countries) into the same pot, and not
try to second-guess the local administrator any more than that.
Now.. if we would realy like to create something that belongs to the
best what we can get in time serving there is, we should do it alongside
the pool, provide it as a service for the pool members only to improve
the quality.
Now that is a very interesting concept. So, we'd be bringing our
own idea of "Private Stratum-1" services to the members of the pool
themselves, and then having them turn around and provide "Public
Stratum-2" services to the rest of the world. That is a very
interesting concept, indeed!
That would satisfy the chimeheads in the group that want to tweak
the last nanosecond out of their clock, while avoiding unnecessary
complexity in providing "good enough" time services to J. Random
Internet User, but doing so in a much more robust and scalable
fashion.
Cool!
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