The NTP Forum recognizes both individual and institutional members.

• An individual may join as either a Supporter or as a Friend.

• Institutions may join at the Basic or Premium levels.

	Premium	Basic	Supporter	Friend
Fee	From $12k	From $3k	From $125	Up to $125
Sponsor Logo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IRC cloak name	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vote	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Forum Web	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Mailing Lists	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
T-Shirt	-	-	Yes	-
Polo Shirt	Yes	Yes	-	-
Forum Conference Invitation	Yes	Yes	-	-
Compliance Logo Program	5-50% discount	Yes	-	-
Feature Priority Planning	Yes	-	-	-
Priority Bug Fixes	Yes	-	-	-
Executive Advisory Board Seat	Yes	-	-	-
Discounted Development	Yes	-	-	-
Bugreport Status	Yes	-	-	-
Advance Security Notifications	Yes	-	-	-
Discounted Technical Support	Yes	-	-	-
Support for -stable	Option	-	-	-

Use of the NTP Forum Sponsor Logo

Show you are a sponsor - you may link back to a page listing our Sponsors to show others you are supporting the NTP Forum.

IRC Cloak Name

Members may request an NTP Project Cloak IRC name on the Freenode IRC Network.

Vote

Voting members have effective input into any decisions put to the membership - we value your opinions and contributions!

Forum Web

Members at the qualiying levels have access to the private collaboration area in the Forum Web.

Forum Mailing Lists

Members at the qualifying levels may subscribe to the NTP Forum Mailing Lists.

T-Shirt

Once we have at least one winning entry in our t-shirt design contest, qualifying NTP Forum members can elect to receive an NTP Forum t-shirt. This and other merchandise is available for purchase at ISC's Company Store.

Polo Shirt

Once we have at least one winning entry in our polo shirt design contest, qualifying NTP Forum members can elect to receive an NTP Forum polo shirt. This and other merchandise is available for purchase at ISC's Company Store.

NTP Forum Conference Invitation

Get an invitation to an annual NTP Forum Conference.

There will (probably) be a members-only portion of the conference and a portion that is open to the general public

Compliance Logo Program

There will be a general compliance testing program.

Discounts for this program are offered to Premium Members.

(S)NTP implementations can be tested for:

• interoperability
  • basic protocol
  • mode 6/7
• Standards compliance
• performance

Reference clocks can be tested for:

• degree of support by different versions of NTP

Successful completion of this program allows participants to use both a web-logo and a logo/emblem on their products.

Feature Priority Planning

Premium Members are invited to participate in the discussion of the priority of new NTP features.

Priority Bug Fixes

Premium Members are entitled to priority consideration of their bug reports in the absence of security bugs or other bugs of critical nature (as determined by the NTP Release Engineer).

Seat on the Executive Advisory Board

Premium Members are entitled to a seat on the Executive Advisory Board.

Discounted Development

Premium Members are entitled to discounted custom (bespoke) development services.

Bugreport Code Release Status Reports

Get links to summary reports of the bugs that have been resolved in each release.

Advance Security Notifications

Get advanced notification of any security vulnerability notifications.

Early access to security patches is provided to Premium Members.

Discounted Technical Support

Get a discount on either a general technical support contract or on a per-incident support contract.

Phone support is available on either a 9-5 Mon-Fri basis (US Eastern Time, excluding holidays), or on a 7x24 basis.

Get support for older releases

This is an extra-cost option.

If there are patches that are important to you that have been applied to -dev that have not been applied to the version of -stable you require, we will apply and support them for you.