Search Engines/IP restrictions/policy changes

As the oversight group for my company, I have had the opportunity to review
thousands of log files for browser hits.  As such, I am comfortable to say
that an extremely small percentage of legitimate non-HTTP1.1 browser hits
occur...less that 2% is a pretty reasonable number.  This rare occurance of
older browser hits is one of the reasons that I think non-HTTP1.1 browser
clients is not an accepable reason for burning large portions of IP address
space.


Clayton Lambert
Exodus Communications

-----Original Message-----
From: policy-request at arin.net [mailto:policy-request at arin.net]On Behalf
Of Justin W. Newton
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:30 AM
To: Brandon Ross; Charles Scott
Cc: policy at arin.net
Subject: Re: Search Engines/IP restrictions/policy changes


At 3:04 PM -0400 9/7/00, Brandon Ross wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Charles Scott wrote:
>
>>  I don't know what the percentages of old browsers in use across the
>>  network are (perhaps someone can point us to some guess of 1.0
>>  browsers), but I do know that we see some pretty old ones come into our
>>  sites.
>
>That is really the core of the discussion.  It would be quite helpful if
>some large webhoster out there could do a study to determine the number of
>non 1.1 browsers are still in use.  I don't work for a large webhoster
>anymore or I'd find out myself.  All I know is that it's been a long time
>since I've seen anyone using an older browser, and that's amongst my
>non-technical friends and family members, not necessarily geeks that are
>always running the latest and greatest.


On our regular web site <the one that is for the general public, not
just our users> we are seeing MUCH less than 1% of all browsers
hitting our site are not http1.1 compliant.  This is true as of about
3 months ago when we last looked at the data.  We're not a large web
hoster, but we do have a lot of traffic come through our web site.
--

Justin W. Newton
Senior Director, Networking and Telecommunications
NetZero, Inc.