jkrey@ISI.EDU (Joyce K. Reynolds) (09/14/89)
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RFC 1119:
Title: Network Time Protocol (Version 2)
Specification and Implementation
Author: D. Mills
Mailbox: Mills@UDEL.EDU
Pages: 61
Characters: 535,204
pathname: RFC:RFC1119.TXT
This document describes the Network Time Protocol (NTP), specifies its
formal structure and summarizes information useful for its
implementation. NTP provides the mechanisms to synchronize time and
coordinate time distribution in a large, diverse internet operating at
rates from mundane to lightwave. It uses a returnable-time design in
which a distributed subnet of time servers operating in a
self-organizing, hierarchical-master-slave configuration synchronizes
local clocks within the subnet and to national time standards via wire
or radio. The servers can also redistribute reference time via local
routing algorithms and time daemons.
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Joyce K. Reynolds