Re: draft-ietf-ngtrans-ipv4survey-02.txt

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Marc Blanchet wrote:
> <newtext>
> The refid field identifies uniquely the reference clock a ntp is based on. 
> This refid is a 32-bit field in the NTP packet. So it cannot carry an IPv6 
> address without a protocol change. The discussions in the ntp dev team and 
> ntp author around how to resolve this issue went to put a "compressed" ipv6 
> address in this refid field. This in fact changes the current protocol.
> 
> Other than the refid change, there is no other changes needed to support 
> IPv6 in NTP.
> </newtext>

Some reference to that change (to use a hash of a part of the address, I 
recall) should be there too.  Is there other than the expired I-D?  Has 
the change in the protocol been ratified or in the process of being done 
so?

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