[125516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Apr 19 09:51:47 2010
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:50:41 +0200
In-Reply-To: <17384977-AF91-47E6-9DF6-33E77620A15E@ianai.net> (Patrick
W. Gilmore's message of "Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:00:10 -0400")
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Patrick W. Gilmore:
>> I'm not so sure. Name-based virtual hosting for plain HTTP was
>> introduced when Windows NT 4.0 was still in wide use. It originally
>> came with Internet Explorer 2.0, which did not send the Host: header
>> in HTTP requests.
>
> NT4 was never heavily adopted by users.
It was fairly popular on corporate desktops, until 2005 or so. You
really don't want to know details.
> Also, not nearly as many billions were being sold on e-commerce
> sites.
We're talking pretty much recent history here, closer to 2005 than to
2000. Here are some statistics from a popular IT web site in Germany,
from mid-2006:
<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mozilla-Firefox-gewinnt-wieder-Marktanteile-140479.html>
They report a 2.5% market share. Of course, these clients weren't
running Internet Explorer 2.0 anymore, and this offers a clue what
will happen if SNI is a desirable feature in browsers. 8-)
