Upgrade NTP to Version 4 [PSARC/2009/244 FastTrack timeout 04/23/2009]

[Brian Utterback]

I am sending this as an amendment to the already approved case.

During the code review, it was suggested to have two authorizations 
for control of the NTP service. The version 3 code does not have a 
authorization defined. In the new code, I originally had the 
authorization of "solaris.system.date" to control the NTP service. The 
new plan is to add two authorizations, "solaris.smf.manage.ntp" and 
"solaris.smf.value.ntp" as per the SMF best practices.

I believe this qualifies for automatic approval. If any one disagrees, 
please let me know.

Brian Utterback wrote:
> The timer is expired. I have marked this as closed approved.
> 
> Thanks to everyone that looked at this. I appreciate the effort.
> 
> Brian Utterback wrote:
>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI
>> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems
>> 1. Introduction
>>     1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>>      Upgrade NTP to Version 4
>>     1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>>      Author:  Brian Utterback
>>     1.3  Date of This Document:
>>     17 April, 2009
>> 4. Technical Description
>> Upgrade NTP to version 4.
>>
>>
>> This project proposes to remove the current version 3.4 NTP 
>> deliverables and replace them with version 4.2.5. The current
>> version in Solaris was released 11 years ago. The NTP project
>> has continued to advance the code base for the entire time.
>> This will be done by removing the current SUNWntpr and SUNWntpu
>> packages from the ON consolidation and move them to the more
>> appropriate SFW consolidation. In addition to the replacements
>> for the current deliverables, the packages will include man pages
>> and HTML documentation.
>>
>> While not 100% backwards compatible, the incompatibilities in the
>> configuration file are mostly semantic in nature rather than syntatic, 
>> with the only major exceptions being in Sun added features, which we 
>> will not be adding. However, because of the popularity of
>> the "slewalways" feature, the startup method will detect the presence 
>> of this Sun added keyword and configure the NTP daemon to use the NTP 
>> version 4 equivalent. 
>> The NTP community project, while not having an explicit requirement
>> for backwards compatibility, in 11 years of development, including a 
>> full re-write of the configuration
>> code, has had no major incompatibilities were introduced.
>> The NTP community is very receptive to contributed code and 
>> integration of features needed by Solaris. I am a committer on
>> the NTP project and I expect to work with the community to push all 
>> fixes and changes back into the community codebase.
>>
>> While the man pages are derived from the HTML documentation, they
>> are specific to these deliverables and as far as possible complete and
>> accurate regarding them.  The HTML documenation, is delivered "as is"
>> and may or may not reflect the deliverables. A notice to this effect is
>> included in the man pages.
>>
>> This work is being sponsored by chris.armes at sun.com.
>>  
>> This project seeks a minor release binding.
>> This project supercedes PSARC 2001/162, which should considered 
>> withdrawn.
>>
>> 6. Resources and Schedule
>>     6.4. Steering Committee requested information
>>        6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
>>         SFW
>>     6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
>>     6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>>
> 

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