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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

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Post by rayvd »

cm2187 wrote: post #15
colechristensen wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What sort of money are we talking about here?

Several million dollars[1].

[1] https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/

Re: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off

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Post by rohan1024 »

yardstick wrote: post #89
fragmede wrote: post #84

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Some users do want people to be able to connect to them directly though, hence Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), which can open ports on your router. You may disagree with the wisdom of automating the port forwarding process for people who don't understand networking concepts but there are people that do want other people to be able to connect to them directly, even if you don't. Generalizing that one use case will sui…

Those that want or need a public IP can pay for it. I do. As you say, there is no one-size-fits-all.

This is why we are stuck with huge corporations to provide services to connect to each other. We are sacrificing privacy because we don't want direct connections. We could have hosted an Instagram clone at home as well if NAT wasn't there.

Ability to connect directly does not necessarily mean that you are somehow more vulnerable to attack. There are measures that you can take to prevent attacks from happening. It's trivial to configure.

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