3.2.1 Abstract Data Model

This section describes a conceptual model of possible data organization that an implementation maintains to participate in this protocol. The described organization is provided to facilitate the explanation of how the protocol behaves. This document does not mandate that implementations adhere to this model as long as their external behavior is consistent with that described in this document.

The server MUST have access to a subset of the client and server abstract data model of the locally hosted NTP Authentication Extensions [MS-SNTP] implementation, as specified below.

This protocol references the following abstract data model elements from [MS-SNTP] section 3.1.1: SpecialPollInterval, TimeSourceType, NtpServer, LargePhaseOffset, SpikeWatchPeriod, HoldPeriod, ResolvePeerBackoffMinutes, and ResolvePeerBackoffMaxTimes. This protocol references the following abstract data model elements from [MS-SNTP] section 3.2.1: AnnounceFlags and LocalClockDispersion.