Many people expected as much, but in practice not nearly to the extent that was desired, partly because SSL was a problem until SNI came along (and that far too

Many people expected as much, but in practice not nearly to the extent that was desired, partly because SSL was a problem until SNI came along (and that far too late) and also because it comes after the TCP handshake, which precludes a whole class of traffic routing and service options. Fine for low-end shared hosting, not fine for many other applications.