Re: [44net] What is 44net?

I'm still wondering if you all are joking, or if you all are serious. I've seen alot of folk simply say "we'll just connect via BGP." I have some serious questions: What ISP do you folk have at home that allows BGP?!?! Do you manage or own a business where you can "borrow" bandwidth and setup your own BGP?!?! Is your equipment already at a tower or location where you can peer with the carrier(s) present there!?!? - I don't know of any consumer ISP that allows their customers to route via BGP - There's an assumption that every nation in the world has widely-available broadband Internet connections or that that every nation will permit a Ham to connect via BGP - I don't know of many Hams that happens to have a spare Cisco Nexus (or other commercial equipment capable of BGP) laying around - I don't know of any consumer connections that 1.) could handle traffic for a /8 without reaching some bandwidth cap or restriction and 2.) allows BGP, servers or commercial grade equipment to be connected to the node - If we BGP on the Internet, that requires every station to procure an ASN plus equipment that can speak BGP, that's a large cost of entry just to tinker around, if they can procure an ASNs from their RIR/LIR Aside from all of those points, exactly how do we continue routing to those who won't setup BGP, cannot setup BGP and/or cannot afford to setup BGP??? -KB3VWG