18 Apr
2014
18 Apr
'14
5:23 p.m.
On 2014-04-17 12:23, Nigel Vander Houwen wrote:
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Hello All,
Frankly, and this is my opinion, not those of anyone
else, the way AMPR
is
presently run, with everything centered around EXTREME legacy ideas and
equipment is a hindrance.
Yes. I agree. That's been my assessment as well.
HamWAN as a network and as an organization
strives to build on the best methods and technologies
used on the
internet
at large. They exist for a reason, and those reasons include that they
work, that they're reliable, that they're redundant, that they're
scalable, and any number of other positive things.
Right. I've been very impressed with HamWAN. I discovered it one day,
and 5 minutes on the site and I was incredibly impressed.
UCSD is very gracious to host the AMPRGW, but it's a HUGE problem for
anyone in 44 space who wants to do their own BGP announcements like we
do.
Would you mind expanding on that a bit?
Especially in light of the recent conversations about
tunnel end
points.
Considering they're not aware of any more specific announcements of
44/8
space.
Is there a network map somewhere? I'm not quite getting how it's
currently setup. Seems like there are some islands of space, various
actual physical links, vpns over the internet etc. It's really quite
hard to wrap my head around.
Additionally, ham radio has a large streak of holding on to the past,
and
is resistant to change.
Yes. That's been evident to me as well. Though some are really cutting
edge (like the south texas baloon launch team).
Wand we really need to remember that's
where amateur radio came from. That is our roots!
Yes. Agreed. I've been saddened by that. I hooked in with the HAMs
because that used to be where all the innovation was. Unfortunately
quite a bit of what I've discovered is basically IRC from 50 years ago
(with a few exceptions of course).