Hi David,
Thank you for reaching out to the global AMPR community with a tool to begin including us in the grant process. I hope this openness will expand as we had been completely removed from all previous grant processing.
Happy to do it. The aim here is to open up communication, and I'm glad to see it's already working!
I have completely your survey but one thing seems to be missing: How some of this grant money can be given back to the 44Net group (aka.. the people who use this 44.x.x.x address space) or projects that interface with it. After all, it was the substantial sale of this 44.x.x.x IPv4 address space that made all this possible and we should invest some of it back into what remains.
Copy this. One of the questions in the survey is something like, "What are the questions we should have asked and what are your answers?" I appreciate you offering your answer regarding the supporting the 44net address space here.
- Fortification of AMPR infrastructure
- Ensured 44.x.x.x gateway access to the Internet (currently UCSD
hosted) - Investment into the AMPR portal, wiki - Consider hosting a VPN service for those who cannot get IPIP
working through their ISP
- Consideration of solving the pending rPKI issue for our BGPusers
- Investment in other projects that use AMPR 44.x.x.x services
- AREDN mesh
- Linux AX.25 stack (in poor shape)
- RoIP communities like Allstar, IRLP, Echolink, DV-Switch, etc
(no specific order)
These are all excellent ideas and speak to some that I've also heard come up internally.
Thank you again, David! Looking forward to hearing from others on 44net as well.
Warmly, Rosy
Rosy Wolfe Executive Director Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) ampr.org
On 9/29/20 8:42 AM, David Ranch wrote:
- Consider hosting a VPN service for those who cannot get IPIP working through their ISP