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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months 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?)