ARPA Internet Time Protocols

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

>A wheel that frequently gets reinvented is how to tell the time over networks.
>Much work has been done on this subject in the ARPA Internet from back when
>there was only the ARPANET up to a few months ago.  This article is a brief
>summary of the existing methods.

I've gotten more than half a dozen requests to post the time RFCs
to mod.sources and no requests not to, so I will do so soon.