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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 [email protected] wrote: > Because some hosts are providing other virtualized services which > are nowhere near being ready for use without per-IP allocations. As a quick reminder of what the release actually says... "While some organizations use IP-based webhosting to, in part, justify their requests for IP space, ARIN will no longer accept IP-based hosting as justification for an allocation unless an exception is warranted. The ARIN Instructions for Using Name-based Virtual Webhosting may be a useful tool in setting up, converting to, and using name-based hosting." Look, to put it simply, it says above that the argument that "I need more IP space cos I keep using one IP per web site and there's no other reason for me burning so many IPs" is no longer going to be accepted by ARIN. Nowhere above does it say "we're not going to give you any more IP space, period, particularly if you need it for something OTHER than IP-based virtual webhosting". What does "unless an exception is warranted" and the explicit reference to IP-based webhosting mean to you? I'm really stumped on this one! > I'll grant that it's not such a big issue for HTTP anymore, Certainly if the people are burning IPs for HTTP without any other reason, which is precisely what this announcement seems to address... > except of course for bandwidth shapers, network analysis tools, > load-balancing switches, kernel-based virtualizations, etc etc > etc. > ...which all seem to come across as falling into the "unless an exception is warranted" category, at least to some extent. Demand for the We Fear Change t-shirts seems to be growing. Any Luddites out there want to place an order? -- Patrick Evans - Sysadmin, bran addict and couch potato pre at pre dot org www.pre.org/pre
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