There is only a small number of services that currently really require dedicated IPs. HTTPS and Anonymous FTP. Although, the HTTPS is a concern - not that many customers actually use the Anonymous FTP service. We ended up offering Anonymous FTP as a premium service (I like to think that this cuts down on warez and script kiddie distribution).
Aha, I was waiting for someone to say that.
So it's going to be OK to use per-host IP addresses if it's sold as a "premium" service? So that business model is OK, but not another? What if we say all of our services are "premium"? What if too many of your customers start paying you for that "premium" service? Where's the threshold? Are you more justified in your IP usage because you charge your customers more for it?
By what justification does this poorly-thought-out policy interfere with business models or competitive advantages between hosts?
I have never seen ARIN give one hoot about business models, especially when it comes to using more IPs than they think is necessary. Deepak Jain AiNET