draft-ietf-ntp-roughtime

Roughtime

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This document describes Roughtime, an experimental protocol that aims to achieve two things: secure rough time synchronization even for clients without any idea of what time it is, and give clients a format for reporting any inconsistencies they observe between timeservers. This document specifies the on-wire protocol required for these goals, and discusses aspects of the ecosystem needed for it to work.