Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey () lboro ac uk> wrote:
> For the sake of security of all internet connected hosts - especially in this new era of even more IOT junk , 
> security updates,  firmware and new OS updates should be granted libre data rates so that users who keep their 
> devices updated are not penalised.

so, just for the sake of the discussion, how would you do this? Keep
in mind that you probably can't (as a carrier) prefer one 'os' over
another, and you will likely have to deal with everything from Windows
to gentoo and all the tiny raspbian/etc in the middle.

How would a carrier identify and track over time the sources of this
traffic? (note that a 'registry of update sources' probably also won't
fly)

> as for carriers pipes...will, if multicast was seriously taken up then eg OS updates could be streamed out on regular 
> updates

multicast, yes, of course. So... it hasn't worked yet in the last ~20
yrs of the internet, it'll work now because?