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

You have to coordinate a packet station? Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 13, 2016, at 5:47 PM, Jerry Kutche (N9LYA) <n9lya(a)uronode.n9lya.ampr.org> wrote: > > (Please trim inclusions from previous messages) > _______________________________________________ > 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) > _______________________________________________ > >> Re: [44net] Verifying the identities of IP coordinators >> From: >> Don Fanning <don(a)00100100.net> >> Date: >> 01/13/2016 05:56 PM >> >> To: >> AMPRNet working group <44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Brian Kantor<Brian(a)ucsd.edu> wrote: >> >> I just thought of another possibility. We could ask that the regional >> coordinators do an audit of their IP spaces in conjunction with the >> above suggestions as they're likely to have closer relationships with >> the end user or be more familiar with the record keeping of their >> countries amateur radio licensing. Then we can check off that IP >> space as "claimed" or "reclaim" it back into the pool. > > 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 >