[140986] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ham Radio Networking (was Re: Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri May 27 00:06:44 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikKDDdhCqnasdqSKgmkctEDSLDXSQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 21:04:43 -0700
To: Carl Rosevear <crosevear@skytap.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 26, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote:
> Yeah, so... the thing is there really are benefits to ham radio for
> the community. I 100% believe in that. And yes, there are a lot of
> neck beards but, honestly, look at some pictures from a NANOG meeting!
> ;)
>
Indeed, there is a club call sign for NANOG. ;-)
I have it on good authority that N4NOG is registered as follows:
N4NOG
North American Network Operators' Group ARC
C/o Robert Seastrom, PO BOX 9303
McLean, VA 22102
USA
Source: http://www.qrz.com
>
> But so here is a "system" that is capable of playing a key role in
> improving many peoples' lives (if actually used), helping in
> emergencies, assisting during armageddon (?), etc. There are an awful
> lot of netblocks that are used for much less valid things (IMHO)...
> but since those make money, everyone endorses it and considers it
> "proper".
>
Given this belief you may want to come stand up for it on the ARIN
public policy mailing list where there is currently a policy being
discussed that attempts to remove needs basis from the criteria
to receive an IPv4 netblock through the directed transfer process.
Owen
