Re:YRO why? (Score 1)

> Can someone please give a little background here?

If you go to the ARIN site's mailing list archives and pick the VWP (virtual webhosting policy) one,

http://www.arin.net/mailinglists/vwp/index.html

you can read up on what the issues are. In short:

- if (say) ten IP addresses are pooled for
(say) ten thousand web sites of customers
of an ISP, everything is well until... one
of those customers does something evil/stupid
(e.g. spamming) and ORBS/MAPS blocks the IP
*number*. Or NetNanny thinks a site is too
explicit and blocks it by number.

- another issue is running out of IP space.

- apparently the pre-HTML 1.1 thing isn't much
of an issue anymore nowadays.

- the policy favors big ISP's with oodles of
class A address space, small ones can't offer
customers unique IP addresses.

- the new policy is unworkable as any IP can
lie about their address requirements, fake
SSL certificates, whatnot

- etc. etc. etc.

But read the archives yourself, i'm not the most knowledgeable person to summarise this.

--Regards, marijke [5551'35"N 505'03"W]