IP assignment for virtual webhosting

> Promote namebased web hosting seems to me a good idea, but I 
> do not agree to
> forbid IP-based webhosting. In fact, with old user agents, 
> any user can know
> the list of all webs hosted under a single IP address. And 
> for an hosting
> company (our main activity), it could make a fuss that one 
> company amoung
> its customers knows it is hosted on the same server as one of its
> competitors...

This is not necessarily the case... you can 'disable' that list... my own
servers are at 212.15.64.41 - going to the IP address within the browser
does not bring up a list of web sites hosted on there...

I do agree though that we should not totally forbid IP based hosting... have
the default as name-based hosting, with some good reasons required for IP
based hosting... in the same way as static vs dynamic dialup IPs...

Regards
Denesh
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Denesh Bhabuta, AMISM
European Internet Services Group
Level (3) Communications Limited
+44-20-7864-0498 ; denesh.bhabuta at level3.com