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Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Wed Aug 28 00:11:48 2002 
> I will go out on a limb and say that a reduction in the cost of 
> stratum-1 servers will increase their use across the Internet.  The 
> results of such an increase would be arguably visible, as the current 
> multi-layer timekeeping system seems to be more-or-less keeping 
> clocks correct to the point of usefulness, at least from a 
> layer-4-and-up standpoint.  

	The point ought to be made that a dense mesh of stratum-2
	sources is likely more robust/accurate than a single 
	stratum-1 source...  

--bill