IP assignment for virtual webhosting

Hi

At 10:51 17-11-1999 +0100, Nurani Nimpuno wrote:
>
>OUR SUGGESTION
>
>The RIPE NCC has followed the deployment of HTTP 1.1 closely over the past
>year. According to recent surveys, a vast majority of clients now support
>HTTP 1.1 (namebased HTTP requests). It is our belief that the majority of
>webserver applications support namebased webhosting as well.
>
>In recent years we have seen a boom in the registration of second-level
>domains. This has led to a great demand for webhosting services. Using one
>IP address per domain uses an enormous amount of IP addresses. With HTTP
>1.1 this is no longer necessary. We therefore suggest to promote namebased
>webhosting and to change the current policy so that IP addresses can no
>longer be assigned for IP-based webhosting.
>

IMO prohibiting all use of public IP address  for virtual webhosting
solutions its going to be a step to far for now, since some of those
addresses are used in SSL certificates.

Maybe if we separate common V W hosting from Secure Web Hosting we can
apply diferent policies.

For example:

Current  Special verification Methods can be applyed for Secure Web Hosting
address space and analised separatly, while the use of HTTP1.1 is promoted.




Pedro Goncalves
Telepac - Comunicações Interactivas