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

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

-- mercredi, septembre 18, 2002 22:40:34 +0300 Pekka Savola 
<pekkas@netcore.fi> wrote/a écrit:

> 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.
not sure we need to go deep in this document. I agree that it would be nice 
to put a reference to a draft on what is chosen to resolve the issue.

> Is there other than the expired I-D?
none that I'm aware.

> Has
> the change in the protocol been ratified or in the process of being done
> so?
- process was done within the ntp dev team and the small group of 
interested people. there is no ntp wg I know of.

I let the ntp author decide how to do this. I think he had in mind a 
important rev of the ntp documents. IPv6 refid would be a very small part 
of it.

Marc.


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