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?