RFC 1128: Measured Performance of the Network Time Protocol in the Internet System

RFC 1128: Measured Performance of the Network Time Protocol in the Internet System, written by David L. Mills in 1989, describes a series of experiments, involving over 100,000 hosts, designed to evaluate the availability, accuracy and reliability of international standard time distribution using the DARPA/NSF Internet and the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

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