wow.
Amazon just purchased 44.192.0.0/9 (a quarter of the amateur radio allocation) for an undisclosed amount, rumoured to be $50 million.
Ian VE7BST (proudly non-American)
On 07-20-19 12:11, Avon wrote to Ian McLaughlin <=-
I have a lot of friends in the USA and have nothing against my American mates in the BBS scene or in others spaces / places... my take is we
all (us humans) make errors from time to time and I think place of
birth / country etc. is a bit of a red herring... but hey this loss of
IP stuff does sound bad for all HAMs :(
There's quite a bit of discussion on the 44Net mailing list. I think
it's hard to pass judgement without knowing the full facts.
On 07-20-19 13:39, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 20 Jul 2019 at 11:23a, Vk3jed pondered and said...
There's quite a bit of discussion on the 44Net mailing list. I think
it's hard to pass judgement without knowing the full facts.
I agree with that.
There's quite a bit of discussion on the 44Net mailing list. I think
it's hard to pass judgement without knowing the full facts.
So far, there's been a fair bit of the expected knee jerk reaction, but there's also been a few thoughtful responses to the situation.
On 07-20-19 23:39, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
There's quite a bit of discussion on the 44Net mailing list. I think
it's hard to pass judgement without knowing the full facts.
A few!. It was something like 100+_ messages in about a 12-24 hour
period. I thought that something had blown up, when all I was seeing
the other night was [44-Net] message headers on my phone.....
At least it's dropped back down to normal level's now.
On 07-21-19 14:36, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 20 Jul 2019 at 08:07p, Vk3jed pondered and said...
So far, there's been a fair bit of the expected knee jerk reaction, but there's also been a few thoughtful responses to the situation.
I did go to the website for the group ?? that made the decision to sell some of the IP range off. I wondered if I should repost that here?
I'm not a member of that mailing list you mentioned but may sign up
today.
[time passes]
Just did but waiting for approval.. meantime I did find some post from AMPRNet about the sale. I'll post it below.
Yep, you can't rely on timely responses from me over the weekend, I'm doing my usual sporty stuff. :D And yes that's basically the
announcement that's gone out. Actually, the first sign that something
had changed was reverse DNS for all of 44.x was not working. Someone botched that as the sold block was transferred to its new owners, it
would seem. And the announcement came shortly afterwards.
On 07-21-19 19:14, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I'm picking is that the dramas are over who has had the mandate to take such action and I've read some stuff about how the block was procured originally for the benefit of the whole community?
Ian VE7BST (proudly non-American)
I have a lot of friends in the USA and have nothing against my
American mates in the BBS scene or in others spaces / places... my
take is we all (us humans) make errors from time to time and I think
place of birth / country etc. is a bit of a red herring... but hey
this loss of IP stuff does sound bad for all HAMs :(
I suspect it is similar in a lot of countries... some politician, which may not be on the ballot in your locality, comes up with a dumb idea (or is sold one by a corporation in this case) and dumber things happen as a result.
I don't think that is an America-only thing. :(
On 07-20-19 23:39, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
At least it's dropped back down to normal level's now.
Yeah it was nuts for a while, with a few dummy spits. ;)
On 07-22-19 23:20, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 07-20-19 23:39, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
At least it's dropped back down to normal level's now.
Yeah it was nuts for a while, with a few dummy spits. ;)
I just hop that the things they want to do with the funds does happen
and progresses ham radio.
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