policy change: static verification methods

On 23-Feb-99 Nicolas Jungers wrote:
>  At 16:44 +0100 23/02/99, Paula Caslav wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >A few weeks ago I send the following proposal to the lir-wg mailing
> >list for comments. Since no comments were received, we are assuming
> >that nobody has objections to change the policy. We have therefore
> >decided to implement it starting immediately.
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
> >Paula Caslav
> >RIPE NCC
> >
>  
>  I agree mostly on the proposal. But please bear in mind that in most 
>  european places, local connection are not free. So another use of 
>  static IP is the setup of MX records on dialup connection that are 
>  down most of the time.
>  
>  I understand also your concern to push http 1.1, but you _can't_ sell 
>  the virtual web hosting without a fixed IP. The percentage of non 
>  http 1.1 compliant browser is just too high for a business customer 
>  to accept that is vanity name will not be seen by those.

I disagree we have created a whole product using http1.1 and get no complaints
about not being able to reach the site. It might encourage people to upgrade to
a newer version browser and so speed up the use of http1.1.




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