[44net] Re: [ARDC:Coordinators] Welcome to coordinators@ardc.groups.io

Hello All, Some of the information floating around is not accurate, so let me try to clear the air a bit. At this time, there are no changes to the regional coordinator role. The TAC community volunteers are only discussing how to improve our address allocation policies and to assure that they are applied equally within all regions. The goal is to increase the usage of the 44Net address space and to provide additional community services for hams beyond IP-IP mesh. This includes new designated subnets for things like the VPN based PoPs. The current process in place made sense when it was first established but in actuality it is not working well for many users and can be a burden on volunteer coordinators. On the backed, it all funnels onto Chris. One of the things that we are looking into is how to better automate the back-end processes. Part of this will be building new and more powerful administrative features into the portal for the regional coordinators to use. The TAC has its hands full working on several projects and has only begun to dive into address space policies. As technical and administrative changes develop, these are being documented and will be published and made available to all. And, when we are ready to work on how the coordination workflow could be improved, this is not going to happen in a vacuum. We will be calling upon the regional coordinator group and working with extended communities like Hamnet and others to be involved with helping us figure out how to best improve the process for membership. There is a lot of work ahead and I thank you all for participating. Together, we can make 44Net an even better community resource! 73, Jon