4 Jun
2012
4 Jun
'12
6:25 p.m.
Hello Everyone,
To get an ASN we will need to negotiate with ARIN
regarding their
standard AS contract; it appears to require those applying for an ASN
to relinquish a significant amount of autonomy, an amount that I
believe is incompatable with the way we wish to continue to operate
network 44.
I was curious if you could elaborate on this point. I've gone through
the ASN process twice in the pastand beyond proving that I had two or
more functioning BGP speaking Internet connections, I don't remember any
language that required my companies to do anything unnatural in the way
they conducted business.
Note also that an ASN costs $500 plus an annual
maintenance fee. The
nonprofit is already about $1k in the hole, financed entirely by me.
We have no source of funds; everything is being done by volunteers
including a significant amount of pro-bono work by a
networking-policy-savvy attorney who has kindly volunteered her time
even though she is not a ham radio licensee (yet).
Using $1500+Maintenance fees as a budgetary conversation starter, maybe
we could setup a Paypal (whatever) donation system to recover these
costs? I think it's more than fair that when new HAMs get an AMPR IP
allocation or gets listed into the encaps file, asking for say a one
time $10 US donation fee seems very reasonable. I want to say I saw
someone mention that we have 2000 active AMPR tunnels at the moment.
Assuming not everyone can or will want to donate money, a 150 donations
will kickstart this effort effort which would recover your sunk costs
(thank you so much for absorbing this already), get the group a ASN, and
cover future costs, etc.
73s,
--David
KI6ZHD