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

[joel jaeggli]

In all fairness even those of us who had a large number of ip based virtual hosts back in the day would have considered it somewhat retarded to burn a /20 on a single system. We already had cnames and mxes, name-based virtual hosts were just another tool to decouple applications from transport. You might even call it a locator/identity split...

James Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks LLC
><jay at handynetworks.com> wrote:
>> So while there is precedent for this kind of policy, ultimately, the policy
>> was effectively overridden and replaced by something much less severe.
>
>Which doesn't say anything at all about the validity of policies of
>that nature.
>What it showed is that particular policy was seen as no longer needed.
>
>The policy may very well have had a hand in  DNS-based virtual hosting
>becoming industry standard, and implemented by all common browsers and
>servers.
>Removal of the policy...   didn't suddenly remove or stop use of
>name-based virtual hosting as a best practice.
>
>But if that policy was never created,   IP-based virtual hosting might
>have become standard,  and  IP exhaustion could have happened years
>ago.
>
>The desired outcome may have been achieved in a manner, that even
>removing the policy  would not actually have any effect.
>
>Technology doesn't just influence RIRs such as ARIN.
>ARIN can influence the development of technology  in responsible ways,
>when it is threatening that a new development  or new administrative practice
>will  subsume all or nearly all remaining address space,
>
>
>--
>-J
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