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299 points gastonmorixe | 4 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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1. simoncion ◴[12 Nov 25 11:15 UTC] No.45898775[source]▶
The Network Time Foundation (which counts the NTP project among those it provides resources to) lists several corporate Members.

But yeah, critical infrastructure usually goes criminally underfunded.

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2. NetMageSCW ◴[12 Nov 25 15:26 UTC] No.45901341[source]▶
Except they aren’t critical infrastructure which is why no one supports them.
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3. simoncion ◴[12 Nov 25 18:01 UTC] No.45903422[source]▶
Accurate timekeeping is critical infrastructure. So much so, that the US government operates many radio stations whose sole purpose is to provide current time announcements, reference clocks, and other timekeeping-related information. See [0].

Relatedly: surely you're not of the opinion that the various GPS constellations are not critical infrastructure?

[0] <https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-se...>

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4. SAI_Peregrinus ◴[12 Nov 25 20:41 UTC] No.45906337{3}[source]▶
Just because other timekeeping projects are critical infrastructure doesn't mean that one NTP client is critical infrastructure.