New project launches and a number of important initiatives drove Network Time Foundation’s accomplishments during the first half of 2023. Our data center and web property upgrades continued with feedback from the global user community unanimously positive.

Notable accomplishments included:

• Harlan Stenn presented a status update on the NTF EF (Extension Field) upgrade/ARIN Community Grant effort at ARIN 51
• Published a new NTF Security Officer key
• Project Releases:
  • ntp-4.2.8p16 released 05/30/2023
  • ntp-4.2.8p17 released 06/06/2023
  • LinuxPTP 4.0 released 06/09/2023
  • libptpmgmt 1.1 released 06/10/2023
• Khronos Project
  • IETF Draft Khronos specification was revised and updated according to the AD evaluation:
    • Terminology section (2.1) omitted, since it is an informational draft.
    • The option of storing IPs was omitted.
    • Nits were fixed.
• Soft launched https://khronos.nwtime.org and https://libptpmgmt.nwtime.org
• Guidestar Platinum Status achieved (users with a free account can view at https://www.guidestar.org/profile/45-1739761)
• Merged www.ntp.org and doc.ntp.org websites and retired the old www.ntp.org website
• Signed engagement letter with our new Financial Review CPA firm - MSP Certified Public Accountants
• Vipin Sharma of SyncMonk Technologies spoke for the OpenCompute Time Appliances Project regarding “SyncESMC - an ITU-T G.781 Multi-Clock ESMC Implementation” (slides and video)
• Harlan Stenn and Margaret Clark attended SCaLE 20X in Pasadena, CA March 10 - 12, 2023
• Harlan Stenn participated in UpSCALE lightning talk at SCaLE 20X
• Harlan Stenn participated in BOF sessions at SCaLE 20X
• Tracy Maloney – Celebrated 10-year anniversary with NTF as an Executive Administrator

Institutional members renewing their annual commitment to NTF included:

• Renesas
• VMware
• Masterclock
• Verizon
• Yahoo!
• Safran (formerly Orolia)
• Microchip

Team additions include:

• Erez Geva, Project Manager/Release Engineer - Libptpmgmt Project
• Neta Rozen-Schiff, Project Manager - Khronos Project

The second half of 2023 is already busy with new Network Time Security funding commitments and exciting projects underway. Thank you to everyone in the global time synchronization community for all of your support these past six months. It is greatly appreciated.