[165901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Palmer)
Wed Sep 25 06:48:31 2013
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:16:47 +1000
From: Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:36:30PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote:
> > That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using
> > Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be
> > written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them
> > on the update-downloading Bittorrent client for the phones.
> >
> > The clients (be it Bittorrent or not) would still download the MD5 hash
> > after the download finishes to verify the integrity of the download, and
> > Apple would still be able to measure the amount of downloaded images.
>
> So then all the networks that have done $things to BitTorrent to demote it
> to second-rate traffic will suddenly have a bunch of very angry Apple fans
> whose downloads are mysteriously having issues.
Sounds like a win to me.
- Matt
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