Folks
the value of network based time sync efforts has been long understood in
this community but ...
I want to propose now that it (time and network sync) be elevated within
the IETF even farther so that time itself becomes the vertical allowing
the IETF to bundle all of the legacy and new potential time service
infrastructures, protocols and use models in a single IP vertical
specific to event and systems synchronization.
This would create an umbrella which would allow the creation of a IETF
practice groups for PTP for instance, and allow the NIST models better
penetration onto the Open Standards platform the IETF is manifesting
itself as today
Conceptually IETF could go so far as to put all of the legacy control
protocols, RFC3161 and all of the other timestamping practices can be
put under one umbrella.
Todd
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Todd S. Glassey
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