Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
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Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
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Re: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
#2I am not familiar with this domain, anyone mind answering: What does this mean for amateur radio practitioners, and what does this mean for the greater internet/communications industry?
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#3I am not familiar with this domain, anyone mind answering: What does this mean for amateur radio practitioners, and what does this mean for the greater internet/communications industry?
All questions are answered at https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/ (which was submitted several times but didn't make the front page).
Re: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
#4>These days, less than one third of the address space is assigned and in use. Large chunks of it have almost never been used
This part probably angers me the most as I (and I'm sure many others) have asked for an allocation in this address space and after waiting months without reply was eventually denied the request.
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#5> These days, less than one third of the address space is assigned and in use. Large chunks of it have almost never been used This part probably angers me the most as I (and I'm sure many others) have asked for an allocation in this address space and after waiting months without reply was eventually denied the request.
It’s frustrating that they paint the unused space as evidence of of abandonment, but the reality is that it’s been impossible to use any of this address space!
Re: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
#6I am not familiar with this domain, anyone mind answering: What does this mean for amateur radio practitioners, and what does this mean for the greater internet/communications industry?
They had a /8, out of that they sold a /10 to probably one of the big 5.
They never got close to using the whole /8 and currently allocated about a third of it.
They are using the money for grants and scholarships and perhaps an endowment to fund them perpetually (and just being cynical, probably paying the board who made this decision some of that money as well)
IPs and blocks have been allocated for decades to people for amateur radio related things and will continue to do so without any changes.
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#7I am not familiar with this domain, anyone mind answering: What does this mean for amateur radio practitioners, and what does this mean for the greater internet/communications industry?
They had a /8, out of that they sold a /10 to probably one of the big 5. They never got close to using the whole /8 and currently allocated about a third of it. They are using the money for grants and scholarships and perhaps an endowment to fund them perpetually (and just being cynical, probably paying the board who made this decision some of that money as well) IPs and blocks have been allocated for decades to peop…
> They are using the money for grants and scholarships and perhaps an endowment to fund them perpetually
But that's outside the scope of what most in the amateur radio community would expect from caretakers of AMPRnet.
Re: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
#8I am not familiar with this domain, anyone mind answering: What does this mean for amateur radio practitioners, and what does this mean for the greater internet/communications industry?
All questions are answered at https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/ (which was submitted several times but didn't make the front page).
Seems like that site is down. Here's the archive.org link for those interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190719150143/https://www.ampr....
Re: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
#9Down with the legacy /8s.
Re: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
#10I am not familiar with this domain, anyone mind answering: What does this mean for amateur radio practitioners, and what does this mean for the greater internet/communications industry?
They had a /8, out of that they sold a /10 to probably one of the big 5. They never got close to using the whole /8 and currently allocated about a third of it. They are using the money for grants and scholarships and perhaps an endowment to fund them perpetually (and just being cynical, probably paying the board who made this decision some of that money as well) IPs and blocks have been allocated for decades to peop…
> ... they sold a /10 to probably one of the big 5.
Yep, the last /10 went to AWS.