Promote namebased web hosting seems to me a good idea, but I do not agree to forbid IP-based webhosting. In fact, with old user agents, any user can know the list of all webs hosted under a single IP address. And for an hosting company (our main activity), it could make a fuss that one company amoung its customers knows it is hosted on the same server as one of its competitors...
This is not necessarily the case... you can 'disable' that list... my own servers are at 212.15.64.41 - going to the IP address within the browser does not bring up a list of web sites hosted on there... I do agree though that we should not totally forbid IP based hosting... have the default as name-based hosting, with some good reasons required for IP based hosting... in the same way as static vs dynamic dialup IPs... Regards Denesh -- Denesh Bhabuta, AMISM European Internet Services Group Level (3) Communications Limited +44-20-7864-0498 ; denesh.bhabuta@level3.com