[186941] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Sun Jan 10 19:15:41 2016
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 18:15:32 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2si259hat.wl%randy@psg.com>
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John Doe end user doesn't even know what updating is, much less wants to control it.... or even do it.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 4:54:34 PM
Subject: Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.
>>> 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
