This is a secretive organization doing this in private and not open to it's members.
Brian has run this as his own ego network for way too long. There has been plenty of back dealing and underhanded shit going on with conflicts of interest between KC's various projects and AMPRnet.
The ARDC board is nothing but self serving corrupt hams. You've proven it with this for the world to see. This was a resource for all amateurs, not ARDC board members to lord over in a back room somewhere. The community should have been involved in this from day one, but that's never been Brian's style.
The TAC committee has not heard from Brian or anyone with ARDC in years. When options were discussed about this before, it was shot down immediately by ARDC with out further discussion.
Brian, get my information off your ARDC webpage as supporting ARDC and working with it. I don't want to be publicly associated with such an organization or personally associated with you.
On 7/18/19 10:47 PM, ARDC Board of Directors wrote:
Amateur Radio Digital Communications [ARDC] is a United States charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation that has long owned and managed the Internet address space known as the AMPRNet.
Nearly 40 years ago, early in the evolution of the Internet, this address allocation was acquired to be used for the mutual benefit of Amateur Radio and digital communications technology.
Amateur Radio operators ("hams") use the global radio spectrum set aside for them by international treaty in non-commercial ways to improve engineering, research, experimentation, training, education, and emergency communications. Having the AMPRNet available over the past four decades has facilitated integration of the Internet with radio-based technologies long used by hams. This long term interaction has been key to development of now ubiquitous wireless technology such as WiFi and the ability to browse the Internet or to stream various media to your mobile phone.
Over those past decades, a portion of the AMPRNet IPv4 address space has rarely been used, and recent utilization surveys show that it is not likely to ever be needed by hams.
Initially free, IPv4 Internet addresses are now highly valuable, and there is an international marketplace in which to sell them. ARDC has sold some of its unused and unneeded address space, but retains a more than ample supply of IPv4 addresses for current and future use by the many Amateur Radio operators worldwide. The sale amounts to some millions of dollars, which will be used in the furtherance of ARDC's continuing public benefit purpose.
Before the sale, the AMPRNet consisted of the addresses 44.0.0.0 through 44.255.255.255 (in Internet notation, 44.0.0.0/8). Post-sale, it consists of addresses 44.0.0.0 through 44.191.255.255 (44.0.0.0/9 plus 44.128.0.0/10). The uppermost 1/4 of the former AMPRNet address space (44.192.0.0/10) has been withdrawn from ham radio use and sold to another owner, however over 12 million IPv4 addresses remain for amateur radio use.
ARDC will use the proceeds of this address sale to further its mission to support, promote, and enhance Amateur Radio, digital communications, and broader communication science and technology by funding grants and scholarships for scientific research, experimentation, education, open access, and innovation in information and communications technology, with an emphasis on benefiting the international Amateur Radio service.
For further information, please see https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/.
Best wishes and 73, The ARDC Board of Directors
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