[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#482628: Bug#482628: ntp: Incorrect web-site listed in package description

[Steve Kostecke]

Kurt Roeckx said:

>On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:51:59PM -0400, Steve Kostecke wrote:
>
>> The http://ntp.isc.org/ web-site URL listed in the package
>> description is incorrect. NTP is _not_ a product of Internet Systems
>> Consortium (ISC).
>
>It used to be there. And as far as I know, it's still hosted by the SC.
>
>> The replacement URL is http://support.ntp.org/
>
>But the homepage changed to http://www.ntp.org/ like a year ago.

http://www.ntp.org/ is the URL for The NTP (R&D) Project. This is the
project engaged in NTP Research and Development at the University of
Delaware. http://www.ntp.org/ has been the URL for The NTP Project since
19970118 (check the whois record).

http://support.ntp.org/ is the URL for The NTP Public Services Project.
This is the project which operates the public facing support services for
The NTP (R&D) Project as well as providing additional developement
support. The public facing support services provided by The NTP Public
Services Project include, but are not limited to, ...

* NTP Bug Tracking System - http://bugs.ntp.org/
* Community Supported Documentation Wiki - http://support.ntp.org/support
* Mailing Lists - http://lists.ntp.org/
* Public Time Server Lists - http://support.ntp.org/servers
* Release engineering infrastructure and services

http://ntp.isc.org/ was the original URL for The NTP Public Services
Project. This project was, and still is, operated on systems provided by
ISC and other generous donors and bandwidth / rackspace provided by ISC.
We stopped using the *.isc.org URLs several years ago because it was
leading some people to believe that there was a "UDEL NTP" and an "ISC
NTP". Using the ntp.isc.org URL in the Debian package description only
serves to perpetuate a falsehood.

http://ntp.isc.org/* is now just a transparent redirect the equivalent
URL at http://support.ntp.org/. We provide this service to avoid
link-rot.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
NTP Public Services Project http://support.ntp.org/
Public Key at http://support.ntp.org/Users/SteveKostecke