RBone: A Self-Organized Resilient Overlay Network

An RBone must be formed and maintained for each different type of security update notification to ensure delivery of the needed security updates. Composed of Revere nodes and the logical links between them, an RBone is the basis of security update dissemination. During security update dissemination, Revere forwards security updates from one node on the RBone to another along the virtual link between them.