pro/cons of virtual hosting services

  > poole at eunet.ch writes:
  > > We strongly discourage use of IP address space for virtual hosting
  > > services because this represents no technical reason to assign more than
  > > one address to a host.  Therefore it is in conflict with address space
  > > conservation. 
  > 
  > A would strongly suggest that this is a NON-problem, even with the gigantic
  > increase in WWW servers that we are all experiencing it is hard to see how
  > this could ever become a serious consideration.

Unfortunately we have seen some significant address space requests based
on this.  Note that we are not talking about one additional address per
organisation served, but one additional address per arbitrary entity
requiring a virtual server.  Given the boom in http based services this
may become quite significant. 

To repeat: The second soloution proposed provides all aspects of
provider independence.  Why should we waste address space if wasting it
does not provide significant additional functionality? 

Daniel