>I hate to be a downer, but nobody even knew about this space until it was mentioned here.
Speak for yourself. :)
>The rules of the modern Internet are "encrypt everything and trust nothing." The laws of ham radio are literally "you must not encrypt anything". It wasn't meant to be, unless you want to change the laws in every ITU member state.
More to the point, the regulations around third-party communications [0] mean that this could never be routable from the public Internet.
And if 44/8 will never be routable, then what's the point of using public addresses? It could use private network addresses instead.
All the same, I find ARDC's response to be high-handed. They refuse to acknowledge that they are selling off what is essentially a public resource. They refuse to believe that others might not trust them to be a responsible steward of ~$50 million.
> They refuse to acknowledge that they are selling off what is essentially a public resource.
I think I'm OK with this. Someone decided to ask for a ton of free IP addresses when the Internet was a crazy thing nobody cared about. That person appointed a board of directors to manage the resource. The appointed board then decided "let's turn that valuable resource into money." That's just capitalism. Is it fair that someone buys stock that increases in value 100x? Is it fair that someone is born rich and you're born poor? Not really. But that's the way the world works.
If you want to post to a networking mailing list "I don't like the way the world works, it's unfair," I'm totally fine with that. But being mad about who owns what today because you weren't around to claim some land before the gold rush seems irrational to me. These folks got lucky. It appears that they are going to donate 100% of their luck to charity. It's all going to be okay, probably.
I agree. If the ham community has internal disagreements about the sale or the use of the money, they should talk to one another in a courthouse. Meanwhile, let the rest of the world make better use of those millions of IP addresses! It's not like Amazon is going to squat on their new /10. We all know they will soon be available for anyone to use on AWS.
Speak for yourself. :)
>The rules of the modern Internet are "encrypt everything and trust nothing." The laws of ham radio are literally "you must not encrypt anything". It wasn't meant to be, unless you want to change the laws in every ITU member state.
More to the point, the regulations around third-party communications [0] mean that this could never be routable from the public Internet.
And if 44/8 will never be routable, then what's the point of using public addresses? It could use private network addresses instead.
All the same, I find ARDC's response to be high-handed. They refuse to acknowledge that they are selling off what is essentially a public resource. They refuse to believe that others might not trust them to be a responsible steward of ~$50 million.
[0]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.115