On Apr 26, 2013, at 00:19 , joel jaeggli <joe...@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: >> >> 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. > > TLS SNI has existed for a rather long time. >> Is that a statistically significant percentage of all the IPs in use? >> >> 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.) -- TTFN, patrick
