Recent NTP pool traffic increase

Fri Dec 30 19:34:51 UTC 2016

On Fri, December 30, 2016 14:26, Emille Blanc wrote:
> Ah, but who do you trust? Trump, Putin, or Xi's clock?
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> That said, we use a Stratum2 clock for our AS, which syncs using GPS at
> $dayjob. So... I guess we trust Trump's clock.
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> Perhaps there's a market for a device that takes GPS, GLONASS, and
> Beidou, and references the three for sanity checks in the event of
> $unforseen_circumstance. Assuming such a thing were possible - admittedly
> I know little about GLONASS, and even less about Beidou.

I was casually (yes, really) looking around at some GNSS modules available
the other day, and readily found quite affordable ones that can receive at
least 2 at a time, of those systems.  GPS and GLONASS being the most
complete, so probably the best bang-for-the-buck.

I'm only an armchair time-nut, so I can't really speak to their precision
and such, so this is very much a FWIW post.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+emille=abccommunications.com at nanog.org]
> On Behalf Of Allan Liska
> Sent: December-30-16 11:09 AM
> To: Majdi S. Abbas; Laurent Dumont
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase
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> On 12/30/2016 at 1:20 PM, "Majdi S. Abbas"  wrote:On Thu, Dec 22, 2016
> at 11:31:08PM -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote:
>> What I mostly meant is that there should be a regulated,
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> industry-wide
>> effort in order to provide a stable and active pool program. With
> the
>> current models, a protocol that is widely used by commercial devices
> is
>> being supported by the time and effort of volunteers around the
> world.
>
> Who's authoritative for time? Even the national labs aren't --
> UTC is figured well after the fact.
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> In the United States that would the United States Naval Observatory
> (USNO) Master Clock (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/).  You can read more
> about it here:
> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/demetrios-matsakis-and-the-master-clock
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> allan
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-- 
Jeff