[186934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Jan 10 16:22:02 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 10 Jan 2016 21:21:33 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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>> as for carriers pipes...will, if multicast was seriously taken up then eg OS
>> updates could be streamed out on regular updates
Given that a lot of these updates are happening in the background
without any interaction with the users, I'd think they'd be ideal for
network-un-neutral traffic shaping, throttle them when people are
doing something else, open them up at 3 AM.
In a more reasonable world, I agree that multicasting Windows Update
would make sense, but that would require a whole lot of agreements
from people who aren't inclined to agree. Also remember that
multicasting only gets you so far, and I would be surprised if you
could multicast over the wireless last mile more efficiently than
unicasting.
R's,
John
