Informational RFC to be: draft-mills-sntp-v4-00.txt

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IESG,

This RFC-to-be was submitted to the RFC Editor to be published as
Informational: draft-mills-sntp-v4-00.txt.


Four week timeout is initiated (16 October 2003).


             Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4
                         for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI


   This memorandum describes the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
   Version 4, which is a subset of the Network Time Protocol (NTP)
   used to synchronize computer clocks in the Internet. SNTP can be
   used when the ultimate performance of the full NTP implementation
   described in RFC-1305 is not needed or justified.  SNTP Version 4
   clarifies certain design features of NTP which allow operation in a
   simple, stateless remote-procedure call (RPC) mode with accuracy
   and reliability expectations similar to the UDP/TIME protocol
   described in RFC-868.

   The only significant protocol change in SNTP Version 4 is a
   modified header interpretation to accommodate Internet Protocol
   Version 6 (IPv6) (RFC-1883) and OSI (RFC-1629) addressing.
   However, SNTP Version 4 includes an anycast mode and a public-key
   based authentication scheme designed specifically for broadcast and
   anycast applications. The authentication scheme extension is
   described in another RFC. Until a definitive specification is
   published, these extensions should be considered provisional. In
   addition, this memo introduces the kiss-o'-death message, which can
   be used by servers to suppress client requests as circumstances
   require. 

   This memorandum obsoletes RFC-1769, which describes SNTP Version 3,
   and RFC-2030, which describes SNTP Version 4.


Sincerely,

Sandy Ginoza - USC/ISI
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