13 Jul
2020
13 Jul
'20
9:12 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 1:53 PM Rob Janssen via 44Net <
44net(a)mailman.ampr.org> wrote:
It is about a year ago that I tried to discuss such a
proposal.
My view was like this: let's establish routers at datacenters around the
world, in
addition to the existing UCSD router and some others that already handle
/16 networks
on internet. I was thinking about around 10 routers globally. They
interconnect using
BGP on private AS numbers (the 32-bit AS numbering scheme we already
use) over a mesh
of tunnels between them, to exchange routing information for 44Net
subnets, but on
internet the announcing remains as it is (i.e. the whole network is
announced at UCSD,
and regional subnets are, but do not need to be, announced at those
global routers).
This sounds about right. I'm thinking "build it and they will come",
but
maybe I should assume there isn't much demand for a solution like this.
I feel this will become more like our frequency use - we didn't use 220mhz,
therefore it was lost to commercial interests. It seems like this is
already happening with 44net, but the details here seem sparse. (on
purpose?)
The reason for 220mhz reallocation seemed to be due to a lack of ability to
use the band by gear. 44-net will go the same route if we need tto attest
BGP with RPKI that AMPRnet is unable to provide.
I doubt there is much stopping the US gov't taking 44-net by eminent domain
and selling it to the highest bidder due to disuse, especially since ARDC
is a US-based (nonprofit) company. The only way to protect that is to
increase domestic and international use of this IP space to make taking it
difficult.
W.r.t. the .ham TLD: I don't see what advantage that would bring, we
already have the
.ampr.org domain and we run the DNS for it. It should offer the same
capabilities as
a dedicated TLD, I think, at a much lower cost.
Agreed, this is a splurge. Just as RPKI is going to cause us problems with
BGP announcements, I sense DNSSEC adoption will cause us to go the same way
if TLDs require it in future. For this, it's about taking control early of
things that can cause problems for us later on.
Rob
-Clive