Re: [44net] 44.192.0.0/10 sale

Hello all I didnt read my mail for some days and when I started to read i thought i was dreaming ... Now I will respond it probably will not be polite but forgive me it is with good intentions and come direct from my heart without any filter So i Understand someone sold part of our Address space before I start i say that I Know Phil Karn (not personally) I was using his KA9Q NOS (under DOS ) those days and made few gateways for Internet to Packet in My Country and provided the local Ham Radio Community internet connectivity in times that only research and development organization was allowed to get internet feed in our country In any case I know that we (the ham radio) got a FREE class A network for years and we can be happy that we didnt have to pay for it and I say many thanks for Brian for maintaining for us a Worldwide Router for years free of charge but it was our address space why to release it ? I have some question and hope that the seller (i really dont know who it is ) will be brave enough to answer them 1) why the whole thing done secretly without any announcement or at least letting the Ham radio community to know it IN ADVANCE at least for the intention ? 2)what will happen now if we will need more address space ? where we will get it from ? 3) is there any mechanism that will prevent selling additional address space in future ? maybe most of you are not aware but I as a member of the iarc.org repeater and Data comm committee face a proposal of France to take the 2 Meter Band for Air band and this might effect the whole world now there is a big fight against this silly proposal I say (and not only me) we are not releasing frequency and also not releasing address space address space is same as frequency !!!! Im very sad on what happened someone here called it "theft" i tend to agree with him ... just because that it was done quick and without any notice or t least letting us to know about what is going to happen and least but not last how much money the seller got for this address space and what will be done with this money for the benefit of the ham radio community ? )maybe buying a ip V6 address space for future time ? I hope that there will be someone brave to face this questions and give answers not only to me to all the AMPRNET community ... I apology again the writing came from my heart the amprnet is important to me as looking for the worldwide community Regards Ronen - 4Z4ZQ http://www.ronen.org Ronen Pinchooks (4Z4ZQ) WebSite<http://www.ronen.org/> ronen.org (Ronen Pinchooks (4Z4ZQ) WebSite) is hosted by domainavenue.com www.ronen.org ________________________________ From: 44Net &lt;44net-bounces+ronenp=hotmail.com(a)mailman.ampr.org&gt; on behalf of Phil Karn &lt;karn(a)ka9q.net&gt; Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 9:55 AM To: 44net(a)mailman.ampr.org Subject: Re: [44net] 44.192.0.0/10 sale On 7/19/19 07:57, Jim MacKenzie wrote: We hope to broaden this as soon as possible, and to only temporarily limit grants to US 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporations. Eventually we hope to make grants to *any* individual or organization in furtherance of the foundation's charter, i.e, to advance amateur digital radio and related technologies -- anywhere in the world. The IRS rules on nonprofits are there to ensure transparency and avoid self-dealing. They're complex and we will have to navigate them very carefully with advice from lawyers, accountants and auditors who specialize in nonprofits. This will not be the Trump Foundation. 73 Phil _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net