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301 points gastonmorixe | 4 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.777s | source
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mhovd ◴[12 Nov 25 10:53 UTC] No.45898645[source]▶
I am surprised that NTP project is not funded, fully or partially, by larger organizations or governments, given the criticality of the project.
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philipwhiuk ◴[12 Nov 25 10:55 UTC] No.45898658[source]▶
Why is research into the protocol useful. Isn't it done?
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1. saikia81 ◴[12 Nov 25 11:08 UTC] No.45898739[source]▶
The project isn't about research it's about creating a reference implementation
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2. philipwhiuk ◴[12 Nov 25 12:14 UTC] No.45899219[source]▶
> The NTP Project conducts Research and Development in NTP, a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network to a common timebase.

Research is put front and centre in their pitch for funding.

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3. willis936 ◴[12 Nov 25 12:22 UTC] No.45899288[source]▶
What's the distinction from NIST's internet time service?
4. ptero ◴[12 Nov 25 12:39 UTC] No.45899425[source]▶
This is probably research into protocol for time sync. Which works well for some scenarios, but not yet for others and can improve the reference implementation (I guess; I have no hard knowledge there).

And given that ntp.org runs servers that so many organizations use they should be near the top of the funding queue for any NTP research. My 2c.