IP assignment for virtual webhosting

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
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