Distributed Time Services

Reference document

Title: Distributed Time Services

Description: The Distributed Time Services provide synchronized time co-ordination as required among distributed processes when executed on different infrastructure segments and across time zones.

Level: 7

emUUID: f15d7721-33a3-48e1-b2c6-b0d896f642dc

Parent: Infrastructure Networking Services

Usage

BSP Mandatory Standards

The following mandatory standards are recommended for this taxonomy node:

Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems (1588:2008)
Working with Time Zones (timezone:2005)

BSP Candidate Standards

The following candidate standards are recommended for this taxonomy node:

DCE 1.1: Time Services (C310:1994)

Service Profiles

The following CIO serviceprofiles references this taxonomy node. For each serviceprofile, we list the standards which will be used to implement the functionality described in the taxonomy node:

FMN Spiral 3.0 Time Synchronization Service Profile
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification (RFC 5905:2010)
- Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions. Annex 1: Coordinated universal time (UTC) (TF.460-6:2002)
Time Synchronization Profile
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification (RFC 5905:2010)
- Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions. Annex 1: Coordinated universal time (UTC) (TF.460-6:2002)
Peer Time Synchronization Profile
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification (RFC 5905:2010)
Federation Time Synchronization Profile
- The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm (RFC 1321:1992)
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification (RFC 5905:2010)