[arin-ppml] Fairness of banning IPv4 allocations to somecategoryof organization

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Sun Oct 11 11:46:40 EDT 2009


> I would call your attention to the allocation policy change years ago
> in which virtual IP addresses for web servers no longer qualified as
> need.

because http 1.1 passes the hostname in a use fashion, so the mass of
addresses is not needed.

> The change under discussion breaks no new ground. At most it again
> moves the yardstick for measuring need so that another set of
> technically valid ways to use IP addresses (for embedded systems)

false.  there was no technical change making the address space no longer
needed.  there are just people thinking their needs are more important
than the needs of others.

randy



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