Reference document

Org
IETF
Pubnum
RFC 5905
Date
2010-06
Version
Title
Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification

Applicability

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks in the Internet. This document describes NTP version 4 (NTPv4), which is backwards compatible with NTP version 3 (NTPv3), described in RFC 1305, as well as previous versions of the protocol. NTPv4 includes a modified protocol header to accommodate the Internet Protocol version 6 address family. NTPv4 includes fundamental improvements in the mitigation and discipline algorithms that extend the potential accuracy to the tens of microseconds with modern workstations and fast LANs. It includes a dynamic server discovery scheme, so that in many cases, specific server configuration is not required. It corrects certain errors in the NTPv3 design and implementation and includes an optional extension mechanism.

Responsible Party

Name
FMN CPWG

Status

URI
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5905.txt

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 2000-04-13 0.2
changed 2005-09-15 0.7
deleted 2009-09-12 4
added 2010-12-06 5
changed 2013-10-22 7-27 8
changed 2017-01-14 9-17 10
changed 2022-12-20 14-62 15
UUID
7fd9069f-1e2f-4009-b525-115785fbe39c

Relationships

This standard is used by the following service profiles: