Search Engines/IP restrictions/policy changes

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Torsey, Brian wrote:

> As for the policy on IP addresses and Virtual Web hosting ... it did not
> come out of the blue.
> 
> Most people I know saw it coming for about a year. It just went from
> "strongly advised against" to "against policy".

Brian:
  Agreed that this policy didn't come "out of the blue". I think what
caught most everyone off guard was that it was such a strong policy with
so little mention of exceptions, dispite the fact that there had been
some discussions that exceptions would be necessary.
  I also think that a strict implimentation of the policy with minimal
room for exceptions would leave Web hosting operations feeling singled out
since there's significant other areas where efficiency can be improved.
  Perhaps what this comes down to is how it's implimented. I wonder if
anyone's had any experience yet dealing with this policy in a real
allocation request? It would also be interesting to hear if anyone has had
experience yet with any providers invoking this policy for downstream Web
providers. 

Chuck Scott