Thoughts on Vendor Approved List?

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During the March 2026 Time Enthusiasts Sync Up, the idea of having a a vendor approved list for vendors, capabilities, limitations, and best fit profiles for both open source and commercial offerings was brought up.

NTP has this published list and I have a google doc of known timing products vendors.

The question is: how do we vet “approved” vendors (or products)?

  • start individual topics for each vendor in the appropriate project’s Hardware topic? as in, we start with our personal faves and indicate why we like that product, who it is suitable for, and its price range?

Definitely open to ideas on how to proceed as this would definitely be a valuable resource.

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I agree that this would be useful. I’m interested to hear what would be best for folks.

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CenterClick a vendor of low-end NTP servers that we’ve been very pleased with:

The non-POE version is about $200; add about $50 for POE, which lets us mount the entire thing outdoors in a weatherproof box, fed by POE Ethernet. Wonderfully techy GUI.

-mel

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As a 501(c)(3), NTF must be very careful regarding things like publishing an “approved” vendor list. Let me see what I can figure out in this regard.