[186935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Jan 10 17:56:43 2016
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From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
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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
maybe for your customers, but not so true for our user base or others
with which i have experience. wise folk want control of patching. and
it's not only IT departments, but end users.
cheeringly, even end users are becoming more cautious, at least those
who have survived :)
otoh, smart devices may tilt this over time. the security aspects of
this are an amusing and horrifying subject of discussion in the opsec
and other communities.
randy
