Hello 44net,
I'm pleased to share that ARDC has updated our granting goals for 2021.
You can see them posted here:
https://www.ampr.org/grantmaking-categories-requirements-goals/
The changes were made following feedback that the previous version was
a bit confusing (including feedback from last year's 44net survey). This
version breaks things down a bit more simply, into 3 high-level categories:
* Support and Growth of Amateur Radio,
* Education, and
* Technical Innovation.
Technical Innovation applies to the following areas:
* Amateur Radio Technology & Experimentation,
* Internet Technologies,
* Digital Communications, and
* Communication Science & Technology
If you are interested in applying for a grant, please take a look at
this new language.
On a related note, we're looking forward to putting resources and effort
into improving the Portal in 2021. I'll have more to share at our
upcoming community meeting on Saturday 06 Feb. Learn more and sign up here:
https://www.ampr.org/feb-6-meeting-sign-up/
Like last time, we'll share a report following the meeting for folks who
can't attend, along with supplemental materials, including our
first-ever annual report.
More soon!
Best wishes and 73,
Rosy
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Rosy Wolfe - KJ7RYV
Executive Director
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
ampr.org
Hi,
Does anyone know Ryan, K0RET and can get a message to him please?
Ryan, if you are reading this, please could you drop me an email?
Thank you,
Chris - G1FEF
Hello, 44net!
It's 2021, and things are already getting off to a running start at
ARDC. We've got a big year of grantmaking and 44net portal work in store
for the year, with additional members being added to our Grants Advisory
Committee (GAC) and a new Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) being
created to support both efforts. We'll have more to share about it soon,
and we'd love to tell you about it at our next **community meeting**:
* Saturday, 06 Feb 2021
* 18:00 GMT (10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET)
Join us by signing up here:
https://www.ampr.org/feb-6-meeting-sign-up/
In this meeting, we'll cover:
* Highlights from 2020,
* Grantmaking goals in 2021,
* Introductions of new Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and Grants
Advisory Committee (GAC) Members,
* Survey results from our latest survey, discussed below, and
* Questions from our attendees.
This meeting will be similar to the one we held on 10 Oct. 2020:
https://www.ampr.org/recap-ardc-44net-oct-10-community-call/
This one is intended for a much broader audience. So - please tell your
friends! We also plan to record this meeting for those who can't make it.
## New Survey
Leading up to the meeting, we're also asking amateur radio enthusiasts
to give us their thoughts in this survey:
https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6096699/ARDC-Amateur-Radio-Survey
Please share it with other hams you know. As with the last survey, the
aim is to get to know the people we aim to support through our
grantmaking. And like our upcoming meeting, it too is meant for a
broader audience.
That's all for now! Looking forward to sharing more with everyone soon.
All the best,
Rosy
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Rosy Wolfe - KJ7RYV
Executive Director
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
ampr.org
Hello, with all the talk of BGP on the list I thought I would drop a note. I am also part of another volunteer effort for those of you already doing your own BGP. Project TON, its sort of like a RBL but via BGP www.projectton.com<http://www.projectton.com> you can setup a peering, and block bad actors (mostly SSH scans currently but our mix is always growing) or even do blocking by prefixes based on country. All free of course - and currently experimental so YMMV, we are just trying to contribute to the community and make the internet "safer". If anyone also had any questions about BGP stuff in Western Canada (Calgary), I could help with that as well - its my day job.
My thanks to everyone dedicating their time to this effort.
-C/VA6CCB
I forgot my portal login info ... entered my email address into the
password reset and got the link, but it is asking to confirm my email
address by entering my username - holy bazoombas I must have forgotten that
one as well ...
How to find your username? Years ago I deleted the welcome email ...
Thanks
Tracy N4LGH
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 2:55 PM G1FEF <chris(a)g1fef.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> > On 31 Jan 2021, at 14:09, Nat Morris <nat(a)nuqe.net> wrote:
> >
> > Which blocks did you report?
>
> I don’t really want to go into specific details on an open mailing list. Suffice to say that keeping an eye on these and responding to problems keeps me busy enough!
Why not? what is to hide? hijack discussions happen on other mailing
lists in the public.
So no more comment from yourself as the BGP co-ordinator on the
prefixes in the report?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nb4cTYVG1tm4HpxgPp7TAcgZ_qOlcej1whd…
If you really do have the details on all these prefixes, there should
be no reason you can't provide a statement on each, if it is an
expected announcement, misconfiguration or hijackk
Without you being slightly more forthcoming in public, in my eyes it
puts the whole integrity of co-ordinating AMPRnet BGP announcements in
doubt.
> > Any explanation for these prefixes announced in the UK by AS61337,
> > along side your portal prefixes, they are not documented at all in the
> > portal:
>
> Not all allocations appear in the public listing on the portal, for various reasons. Try the Whois server if you want by check specific prefixes.
Where is this publicly documented?
> > RADB is ok, but not sufficient for the future. A better investment
> > would be for the ARDC to negotiation with one of the 5 RIRs for
> > prefixes to be registered there, so we could all benefit from use of
> > their RPKI trust anchors.
>
> I can’t see that happening anytime soon I’m afraid, if ever, unless they drastically change their terms. We won’t do anything that risks losing our legacy status.
Have the ARDC approached each RIR and discussed this?
> > Having prefixes in RADB will not provide
> > trust anchor functionality.
>
> Agreed, and RPKI is something we understand is desirable, there are several ways it could be achieved and will be the focus for the TAC at some point in the future.
>
> >> Which repo is this development taking place in?
>
> The development is taking place currently and will be open sourced when it’s ready. In the meantime, if you want to have input on any features you would like to see, feel free to contact Rosy and/or myself.
I'd like to see planning for this taking place in the open, not closed.
> > I noticed the github.com AMPRnet Portal repo has been removed.
>
> There was no point in it being there, we tried that route a couple of years ago and didn’t get anywhere.
Nat,
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Nat
https://nat.ms
+44 7531 750292
Hello all,
Over the last few months I have noticed some odd BGP announcements of
prefixes which have no allocations in the AMPRnet portal. After
spotting 5 or 6 of these it made me wonder how many existed.
This evening I took a snapshot of the RIPE RIS data for announcements
within 44.0.0.0/9 and 44.128.0.0/10, which took place in 2021. Then
scraped the allocations from the AMPRnet portal, compared prefixes
directly and then used a radix tree to find a best match.
The resulting data
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nb4cTYVG1tm4HpxgPp7TAcgZ_qOlcej1whd…
At first glance there are some expected entries, for example users
with a /22 or /23 announcing a more specific /24.
What really worries me is the amount of announcements of /24s where
the closest portal documented prefix is a /16. Are these being used
legitimately? do AMPR co-ordinators what details about them? or have
they been hijacked?
Look for example at /24 announcements within country assignments, but
no specific description!
I would like to start a discussion around these specific prefixes.
The scripts I wrote are here https://github.com/natm/amprnet-observer
Kind regards,
Nat.
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Nat
https://nat.ms
+44 7531 750292
Hello,
I have followed the instructions at
https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Installing_ampr-ripd_on_a_Ubiquiti_EdgeRouter_or…,
but am encountering an error when running the ampr.sh script.
line 28: /usr/sbin/ampr-ripd: cannot execute binary file
The binary file is executable and I am attempting to run it from root.
Line 28 has not been modified in the script:
ampr-ripd -s -t 44 -i tun44 -m 90
The instructions say only to modify if needed, and based on the info in the
Wiki I did not see a need to modify it, but I may be missing something. Any
ideas?
73,
Lee K5DAT
On or about January 5, 2021 I received an end-user allocation request for a
"direct" /24 allocation "for working with ARDEN and IRLP for VPN and link
setups" which I approved and submitted via portal.ampr.org. It
didn't create the allocation I assigned to the network but was "referred to
BGP coordinator". So far, there has been no action and no response to the
original request nor a follow up to my request via the "contact us" link on
the black hole that is the ampr.org portal. What is the status of the
system and how are coordinators expected to act in this regard? I try to
give my users timely, responsive service but it's very frustrating when I
can't even track a submission or review submission histories. The end user
has informed me that he is still awaiting action on the request.
ke6qh
