IP Space

[Bill Van Emburg]

Actually, I do question your numbers.  The last I heard, more sites on
the Internet were running Apache than anything else.  Your numbers
derive from an ill-defined subset of "the largest retail sites."  By
whose definition?

However, more to the point, while IIS numbers certainly *are*
vendor-specific, I disagree strongly with Mr. Lambert's statement, "I
think it is erroneous to hold policies to vendor-specific limitations."

I believe that any policy you set must account for the reality of what's
available (commercially and free) to the vast majority of web sites on
the Internet.  Setting a policy that can't be followed by users of
Apache, Netscape and IIS, for starters, is completely unreasonable, and
I would oppose such a policy vigorously.
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				     -- Bill Van Emburg
				     	Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
Phone: 732-235-2335, x206		(mailto:bve at quadrix.com)
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"AveHost.com Staff" wrote:
> 
> I think any policy that affects the operation of IIS, in any version, is
> hardly "vendor specific" as many, many servers on the public Internet are
> running IIS, in fact, 47% of the secure sites and 52% of the largest retail
> sites on the Internet are running on Microsoft Windows®.   Are you going to
> tell me those are "vendor specific" numbers?
> 
> AveHost.com Staff
> AveHost.com, a service of RegSearch International
> 201-840-7311
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clayton Lambert [mailto:Clay at exodus.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:31 PM
> To: info at avehost.com; 'Susan Zeigler'
> Cc: 'Policy at Arin. Net'
> Subject: RE: IP Space
> 
> I think it is erroneous to hold policies to vendor-specific limitations.
> Protocol support should be the primary focus for policy.
> 
> Clayton Lambert
> Exodus Communications
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: policy-request at arin.net [mailto:policy-request at arin.net]On Behalf
> Of AveHost.com Staff
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:41 PM
> To: Susan Zeigler
> Cc: Policy at Arin. Net
> Subject: RE: IP Space
> 
> Susan:
> 
> I mean no disrespect but that is not current possible in IIS 4 or IIS 5.o.
> There is no way to make an instance of a site in IIS 4 or 5 use SSL with the
> same IP, IIS blocks it with an error message.  Thus, it DOES hold lots of
> water!
>