Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

jherazob ( jherazob@beehaw.org ) · 3 years ago

henfredemars ( henfredemars@infosec.pub ) · 3 years ago

This is fascinating because I was reading an article specifically concerned with losing his expertise. Let’s see if I can find it.

Snot Flickerman ( SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) · 3 years ago

I’d be interested in finding out if Harlan Stenn ever finished the paper Mills was putting together about an updated NTP.

GreatAlbatross ( GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ) · 3 years ago

We do now have PTP, which has several big improvements. But it’s a lot more involved to set up.

jarfil ( jarfil@beehaw.org ) · 3 years ago

only a few people appear to be both capable and willing to oversee the critical yet overlooked software

I would be willing to become capable… for a fee.

(now, less, or more, seriously, what’s going on with the coördination in that article?)