Re: [44net] Verifying the identities of IP coordinators

Often I hear from the End user at the request of an IP point in time.. Many not, all never keep in touch those that do we work well together.. I could not tell from looking who is active who is not. And some of those who I work with we only communicate when needed to do something to the allocation... ie expand a subnet..? On another not totally related note. >Hell as Packet Coordinator for Indiana (not net44)... I have three hams who have ever submitted a coordination... Yet there are stations popping up.. No one submitting... 73 jerry Packet Coordinator Indiana IP Coordinator Indiana HF Skipnet Coordinator -----Original Message----- From: 44Net [mailto:44net-bounces+n9lya=uronode.n9lya.ampr.org@hamradio.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Janssen Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 3:59 PM To: 44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu Subject: Re: [44net] Verifying the identities of IP coordinators (Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ I have made an effort to do that. I tried to contact all hams that are in the current allocation for the Netherlands, and asked them if they want to maintain their allocation. As a result, some have replied they no longer want to use it, and I have deleted those allocations. The ones that confirmed their allocation I put on a list with a datestamp. But the vast majority of the hams could not be reached. I have no uptodate contact info and even the old contact info is difficult to access (it is a folder in my mail program that stores all original requests starting in 2002, I don't even have those for the addresses requested before 2002). I also regularly delete the allocations for hams that no longer appear in the official callsign listing for the Netherlands. (I have done this every year, but recently I have done it weekly because starting from this year there is a fee for keeping an amateur callsign and lots of inactive hams have removed their registration as a result) I only keep the registrations in a hostsfile and use a script to send the updates to the mail robot. As an afterthought, I should have kept a file with more info like date of registration and contact address for each entry, but it would require a filtering system so this information does not end up in the publicly visible file. I like to keep everything in a textfile as opposed to some database with a web form frontend, because it allows me to browse through the file to see where a new allocation is to be put, something lacking from many address allocation systems including the amprnet portal. Rob