IP assignment for virtual webhosting

  Dear Nurani!

>Subj:	IP assignment for virtual webhosting

  Before making up my mind I'd like to better understand what 
  (in the following parapraph)

>We do however wish to raise our concern regarding what we see as an 
>inefficient usage of addresses in our limited address pool. We would 
>therefore like to request the community to consider making it 
>mandatory for NEW installations to use domain based web-hosting, with 
>the exception of a set of agreed applications needing IP based 
>web-hosting (eg. SSL).

  "NEW installations" is in reality?

  I could come up with a couple of different interpretations, like:

  - an existing ISP or Web-Hotel can use the old technology,
    new sites are required to use the new technology, or

  - replacing or upgrading en existing web server (hardware only? software
    only? both?) requires the new technology to be deployed, or

  - ....
  
  But probably it's just because I don't know too much about web hosting
  in the first place...
  
  Wilfried.
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