----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Adams" <[email protected]>
> Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> said: > > Does anyone know how much IPv4 space is allocated *specifically* to cater > > to the fact that HTTPS requires a dedicated IP per DNS name? > > > > Is that a statistically significant percentage of all the IPs in use? > > I have no numbers, but my gut feeling is that there are a lot more > eyeballs than web servers with lots of IPs. Fair point. Though those are choked behind carriers who may well CGN them whether the eyeballs like it or not. > > Wasn't there something going on to make HTTPS IP muxable? How's that > > coming? > > SNI; RFC 3546 > > > How fast could it be deployed? > > The RFC is just shy of 10 years old, so that's like a baby compared to > IPv6. > > It is mostly deployed, but there's still a fair number of old clients > that don't support it. WinXP+IE is probably the biggest fail, followed > by Android < 3.0 and BlackBerry. When you say "it is mostly deployed", what exactly do you mean? Is it layer 7 or 4? Does it live in libraries that can be upgraded behind users' backs? Or is it actually in the browser proper? Or are you just talking about the server-side of the equation? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
