policy change: static verification methods

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen Burley wrote:

>
>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.

I agree, we have been using IP-less virtual hosting with HTTP 1.1 for over
a year and not received a single complaint. It is more a choice of
webserver technology I would say.

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