Hi, On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 10:51:14AM +0100, Nurani Nimpuno wrote:
We would like to hear your opinions on the issue of IP assignments for virtual webhosting. The current policy is rather old and in the meantime a lot of things have changed; most importantly the market for webhosting products, as well as the development of the HTTP protocol and related software.
We think that HTTP/1.1 name based virtual hosting should be strongly encouraged, but we do not want to have IP based virtual hosting to be "forbidden". For pure WWW/HTTP hosting, there is no need to use IP based virtual hosting, but for customers demanding special solutions, like https/SSL, anonymous FTP servers (they want their *own* anonymous FTP server, not something like /pub/<customer name>/..., being able to see all other customers' servers), RealAudio service, etc., IP based virtual hosting is necessary. kind regards, Gert Doering -- SpaceNet NetMaster -- SpaceNet GmbH Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299