On 3/10/2016 6:42 AM, Dani EA4GPZ wrote:
Perhaps a comparison with the DMR/D-STAR/YSF networks is in order here: not only the repeaters are properly identified, but also all the traffic is tagged with the callsign of the Amateur that originated it.
Been following this discussion, but refraining from making any comments. My initial reaction was "why?", but on reading the thread and reflection, there is merit in the idea, it could be useful to know all the stations involved in an exchange, both the local RF gateways (at link level), as well as those at the IP level.
Given that there's no way of controlling what allocations ISPs give customers, I agree that the callsign needs to be encoded in the last 64 bits of the IP address, with room for a number of SSIDs. Security wise, there will need to be a simple way of identifying the properly encoded addresses, so RF gateways only pass those. Anyway, I'll keep giving this some thought. I have a /56 here that I'd like to put part of on air one day.