[moe]

I everyone had boxes like this, then yes, great, we'd not need reliable publicly accessible stratum 1 servers. But most people don't.

Um. We have "reliable publicly accessible stratum 1 servers".

Regardless of what happens with the NTPd software, Google will probably continue to provide time1-4.google.com.

NIST will not shut down their timeservers.

And the 3654 servers in pool.ntp.org[1] (which seems to be maintained by a different guy) also won't just disappear overnight, though I'm not sure if these are Stratum 1 (probably not).

I still don't understand what exactly this guy is doing that should cost more than the $7k/mo that he's getting, much less the "$X0 million a year" that vinceguidry wants to allocate to the task.

[1] http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone