IP assignment for virtual webhosting

Nurani Nimpuno writes:
 > 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).

So you would require servers like www.siemens.de to share an IP
address with www.my-completely-unimportant-personal-site.de if there
is no SSL or similar use?

I would suggest to make exceptions for heavily used sites, too. Since
the vast mayority of webservers does not fall into this category, this
is no waste of address space.

Robert