Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no schrieb per Mail :
The importance of enforcing name-based hosting is high, but I also get the feeling the amount of wasted address space elsewhere on the Internet (/16s allocated to big institutions years ago that are firewalled other than a handful of /24s?) should be a higher priority - not saying that RIPE did these allocations of course!
The past sins of others is no excuse to continue sinning.
Right. But this is not a religious matter. So that are not "sins" but "errors", and errors can often be corrected. I agree with all efforts to minimze wasting adress space in the future (so I agree to name-based Web-hosting...) but there should also be the same effort in examine errors (wasted adress space) of the past, and correcting them, if possible.
Besides, there was a time before "classless" technology became widespread or even available, and there actually existed prior IP address allocation policies from the registries (or back to when there only was a single registry) which were substantially different from the ones we have in use today.
Right, and there also was a time when everyone thought, 2 year-digits in a date-field are enough. ;) That is no excuse to not try to correct the errors of the past. regards, Andreas -- INS Informationstechnik, Netzwerke und Systeme Vertriebs-GmbH Postfach 101312 (PLZ 44543), Europaplatz 14 (PLZ 44575), Castrop-Rauxel Andreas Frackowiak Phone: +49-2305-101-0 Fax: +49-2305-101-155 af@ins.de