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

[Randy Bush]

> Https, for example, does not function properly without a different IP
> address for each hostname because the SSL certificate for the server
> name must be offered to the browser before the HTTP 1.1 server name is
> transmitted by the browser.

first, you mean apache, not https.  second, it does work.  been using it
for years.  you have to be cert smart.

> Even excluding the https issues, there were still a not-insignificant
> number of folks at the time using http 1.0 browsers (like NCSA Mosaic)

in the computer museum in menlo park?

> No, the historical fact is that we became alarmed by the address
> consumption for http servers and made a value judgment as a community
> that the address pool shouldn't support web server names in a 1:1
> ratio to IP addresses.

if i had been on the internet in those long-forgotten days, i might
remember it quite differently

randy