poole@eunet.ch writes:
We strongly discourage use of IP address space for virtual hosting services because this represents no technical reason to assign more than one address to a host. Therefore it is in conflict with address space conservation.
A would strongly suggest that this is a NON-problem, even with the gigantic increase in WWW servers that we are all experiencing it is hard to see how this could ever become a serious consideration.
Unfortunately we have seen some significant address space requests based on this. Note that we are not talking about one additional address per organisation served, but one additional address per arbitrary entity requiring a virtual server. Given the boom in http based services this may become quite significant. To repeat: The second soloution proposed provides all aspects of provider independence. Why should we waste address space if wasting it does not provide significant additional functionality? Daniel