IP assignment for virtual webhosting

Robert Kiessling wrote:
> 
> 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?

If they share the same hardware (eg. physical box serving both WWW
sites), then what's the problem with sharing the same IP? Also, WWW
is (was?!) supposed to bring some level of equality, so for some
people Siemens might be important, for someone else that "unimportant"
site might be the most important site in the world. What we can measure
is how much traffic does some WWW produce and in "domain name seb-hosting"
what matters is how many requests for a site fail because of outdated
(old) HTML browsers.
In any case we can be grateful that protocol exists so we can use
"domain based web-hosting" and we can responsibly contribute to
conserving IP4 space. (eg. we stopped assigning separate IP numbers
for virtual web-hosts months ago)

Regards!
Darko
 
> 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