[162583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 and HTTPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Apr 26 00:27:37 2013
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <517A006A.5020003@bogus.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:27:22 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 26, 2013, at 00:19 , joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> On 4/25/13 6:24 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> Ok, here's a stupid question[1], which I'd know the answer to if I =
ran bigger
>> networks:
>>=20
>> Does anyone know how much IPv4 space is allocated *specifically* to =
cater
>> to the fact that HTTPS requires a dedicated IP per DNS name?
> It doesn't, or doesn't if if your clients are not stuck in the past.
>=20
> TLS SNI has existed for a rather long time.
>> Is that a statistically significant percentage of all the IPs in use?
>>=20
>> Wasn't there something going on to make HTTPS IP muxable? How's that =
coming?
> there are stuborn legacy hosts.
>> How fast could it be deployed?
> you can use it now.
Sure, you "can".
But no one will. No one (especially someone doing SSL content) wants 99% =
connectivity. And there's a lot more than 1% XP out there. (Hrm, that =
explanation works to explain why to a couple decimal places 0% of the =
Internet is on v6 only today.)
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
