Hello,
Charles Wyble here. I'm new to the list and thought I would introduce
myself. Glad to be here. I'm the cofounder and CTO of the Free Network
Foundation (
http://www.thefnf.org). I'm not currently licensed as a HAM,
however my co founder is.
I stumbled across 44net via some folks up in Seattle doing a HAM WAN
net.
My background is in large scale systems (10000+ servers), storage,
security, virtualization and basic data center networking. I'm now
getting into WAN networking and the fact that an entire /8 is available
to HAMs has convinced me to get my license very soon.
For anyone who wants to experiment with BGP/WAN networking etc, please
do let me know. (I've seen some folks on list express that, and I'll be
reaching out). I know my cofounder will be requesting some address space
very soon to experiment with. This is a great opportunity to get started
on the real internet, because as mentioned IPv4 space is almost
impossible to get these days.
I look forward to being an active participant in the list. As far as I
know, this is the only address space that's publicly
administered/discussed etc. That alone is a huge draw for me. Everyone
else that has space keeps governance closed.