[125517] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Apr 19 10:07:12 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <87zl0z8sb2.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:59:58 -0700
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Patrick W. Gilmore:
>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> NT4 was never heavily adopted by users.
>=20
> It was fairly popular on corporate desktops, until 2005 or so. You
> really don't want to know details.
>=20
>> Also, not nearly as many billions were being sold on e-commerce
>> sites.
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> =
<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mozilla-Firefox-gewinnt-wieder-Mar=
ktanteile-140479.html>
>=20
> 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-)
I had an interesting discussion with someone from Registration Services =
at ARIN today.
The big requests for IP space (the 11 organizations that hold 75% of all =
ARIN issued
space) do not come from the server side... They come from the eye-ball =
ISPs. The only
/8 issued by ARIN to an ISP, for example, was issued to a cable ISP.
With this in mind, I don't think there's much to be gained here. =
Optimizing the utilization
of less than 25% of the address space in the face of the consumption =
rate on the 75%
side simply cannot yield a meaningful result. It really is akin to =
rearranging the deck
chairs on the Titanic.
Owen
