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

jherazob@beehaw.org · 2 年前

henfredemars@infosec.pub · edit-2 2 年前

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 年前

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

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk · 2 年前

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

jarfil@beehaw.org · 2 年前

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?)