Re: [Last-Call] [EXTERNAL] Re: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-dtn-bpbis-17

[Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The draft is more about time scales than protocols used to sync them. NTP is mentioned largely in its use of UTC. PTP supports a variety of time scales so it doesn’t add much to the discussion.

Joe

On Nov 8, 2019, at 8:24 AM, Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 8 Nov 2019, at 15:40, Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unix time != the Posix time API. One is a time scale; the other is the interface to obtain potentially many different time scales.

I dove into these issues here: draft-touch-time

Joe

Interesting draft, but I am surprised that you do not note PTP/IEEE1588.

Stewart

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