The DTS Planning Team
Two main categories of personnel interact with the DTS software: system managers and applications programmers. Programmers do not usually need to be involved in the planning stages of the DTS implementation. If you are writing a program to import a source of UTC time into the service, however, you may wish to locate the time-provider at the server that is closest to the programmer. Close proximity to the time-provider helps the programmer when testing the software application with the time-provider hardware.
System managers or network architects usually plan the DTS implementation. They decide which nodes are servers and which are clerks, and they decide how the DTS implementation grows with the network. DTS is scaleable for large networks so that expanding an implementation to include new nodes is relatively simple.
System managers also install the software and maintain DTS. As the network grows, system managers ensure that the service is running with acceptable accuracy and install new servers, time-providers, and clerks.