30 Jan
2021
30 Jan
'21
6:33 p.m.
Hi Cynthia,
On 1/30/21 3:14 PM, Cynthia Revström via 44Net wrote:>
I do believe multiple people in the past have offered
help with the various
systems such as the portal or the WHOIS server in an attempt to make them
more functional and stable (the WHOIS server often goes down and I have to
email Chris to get it back up).
But as far as I can tell, the ARDC and Chris are not interested in
receiving help in fixing these issues, despite seemingly not having any
plans in the short term at least to fix them themselves. (The whois
instability has been a thing since 2019 at least)
It is well documented that there are issues with the Portal, as well as
other technical items related to 44net. ARDC is aware, and we are in
fact quite interested in fixing them. To that end we're reinstantiating
the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) (members to be announced next
week) specifically to sort through its many issues and help prioritize
them. From there, we will be working with developers to implement the
needed work. A new, more stable back end is already in development.
When it comes to the work, both in the short term and the long term,
there are multiple ways to solve the problems before us. This is why the
TAC is so critical - with their input, we aim to determine a direction,
one rooted in the people who are using the network, aimed toward its
future health and growth.
One area where we do realize we could do a better job is with
communications. It's understandable not to know this information if no
one's said anything. This year ARDC will be hiring some additional
staff, which will help us get the word out about what we're doing (among
so many other things). For now, it's just me, and I'm working on a
quarterly communication cycle and sporadically popping on 44net.
Speaking of quarterly communications, next Saturday 06 Feb we're doing a
community video call. Read more and sign up here:
https://www.ampr.org/feb-6-community-meeting-new-survey/
Please join if you can. Looking forward to sharing more with y'all very
soon.
In the meantime - please know that you are heard and that solutions are
in the works.
All the best and 73,
Rosy
Rosy Wolfe - KJ7RYV
Executive Director
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
ampr.org
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 11:06 AM Paul Sladen via 44Net <
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, G1FEF via 44Net wrote:
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Often the BGP process involves the exchange of
private details
that the end user may not wish to share.
"Often" here means "sometimes". (1) /Why/ are "private
details" being
exchanged *sometimes*, but other times not?
(ie. there appears to be variability in the process, but that
variability is not documented...; otherwise the requestee would
likely already have pre-submitted the information, because of
knowing clearly what was going to be requested.
The Portal is being redeveloped and one of the
new facilities will
be full traceability and transparency for all allocation
workflows, including the BGP process.
Teaching a computer, first requires knowing/recording the steps.
(Yourself/Brian know/knew how the workflow was done, but at the moment
that information is still locked away, and not openly shared).
If you, or anyone on this list, would like to
have input to the
development process please contact me and/or Rosy off list.
...We have it again: "please contact me off list". (->memory hole.)
(2) What can I/we do to help, to keep discussion like this *on list*?
Here's the same standard offer to the trustees/employees;
(*it requires a conscious decision+commitment to *want* be open...)
I (Paul Sladen) am willing to help Ampr/ARDC organise documentation-
stuff. It is only possible to organise what is already written down
and shared.
(3) Do yourself/the trustees want to do this?
-Paul
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