Frank Kardel is a veteran contributor to the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

Over the last 21 years, he has made significant contributions to maintain, update and secure the NTP code. Kardel is also the NTP Scan Project Leader.

In Part 1 of this Q&A, Kardel talks to us about the NTP community, how they’ve dealt with code security over the past two decades and how NTP prioritizes the demands of its code.