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This is a preview/early-acces/alpha/buzzword-of-the-times release
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of a new FOSS project written to gradually take over the world of
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networked timekeeping.
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The first step is a NTP protocol client daemon, 'Ntimed-client',
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which will synchronize a systems clock to some set of NTP servers
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If this catches on, support for slave servers, refclocks and other
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protocols, such as PTP, can be added, subject to interest, skill,
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time and money.
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The overall architectural goals are the same as every other FOSS
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project claims to follow: Simplicity, Quality, Security etc. etc.
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but I tend to think that we stick a little bit more closely to
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them.
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This work is sponsored by Linux Foundation, partly in response to
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the HeartBleed fiasco, and after studying the 300,000+ lines of
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source-code in NTPD. I concluded that while it could be salvaged,
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it would be more economical, much faster and far more efficient to
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start from scratch.
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Ntimed is the result.
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