On Wed, 28 Jul 2021, David McGough, KB4FXC via 44Net wrote:
As a casual observer and out of curiosity, I looked over the proposed TAC document and I'm left puzzled as to what REAL problem this proposal is attempting to resolve??
Yes, the high-level context is missing: It appears to be:
Open the space up to all hams, regardless of hardware.
That means mobile phones, with built-in VPN facilities, contecting via 44.44.44.44 (or whatever) and getting insta allocated a 44.128 address.
Thus getting people (hams) "on the air" in ~3 minutes.
routing tables and quickly route traffic, leaves me completely baffled--since I already do this all the time.
Most hams can't manage this; ... barrier-to-entry is vastly too high.
I would argue that Internet routable "experimenters" space is more important now than ever.
Hams use Amateur Radio spectrum for communciating betweens hams---not broadcasting to the public.
(In my eyes) 44.128/10 is equivalent of Amateur Radio EMF spectrum.
-Paul