IPv6 and HTTPS

Fri Apr 26 07:29:28 UTC 2013

Hi Jay,

The DTC hosting control panel team had a chat about this issue earlier 
in the year.

http://gplhost.sg/lists/dtcdev/msg03482.html - Interesting reading.

I followed a little, but decided that SNI just isn't worth our time.

In my personal view, an hour spent on SNI is an hour wasted that I 
should be spending on IPv6.

There's still more than enough IPv4 space about, it's just going to get 
more and more expensive.

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=49&topicid=116328

I'm happy to put IP space costs on my customers to help fund my IPv6 
progress where I can.

I agree with others that there is still way to much XP and other non 
supporting platforms and I suspect that by the time we get those out of 
the system we'll be most of the way there for IPv6 access.

I feel a bit like it's a case of "am I committed to IPv6 or not?".

D

On 26/04/2013 1:24 p.m., 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?
>
> 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?
>
> How fast could it be deployed?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
> [1] Ok, five questions.
>
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