IPv6 and HTTPS

Fri Apr 26 05:46:52 UTC 2013

On Apr 26, 2013 12:29 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
>
> On Apr 26, 2013, at 00:19 , joel jaeggli <joelja at 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.)
>

You like fuzzy math. OK.

http://tndh.net/~tony/ietf/ARIN-runout-projection.pdf