On 2/16/21 9:42 AM, Toussaint OTTAVI via 44Net wrote:
Le 09/02/2021 à 00:01, Cliff Sojourner via 44Net a écrit :
We already have hundreds of SDRs available via IP. One aggregation is athttp://websdr.org/
Don't think only in terms of bandwidth, but also in terms of services. This is a perfect example of things that would benefit from a "New Generation" 44net connection. F/ex, Internet users could be allow to listen only, while 44net users could be allowed (under some circumstances) to transmit, too.
That's a common problem for people who build Internet-related applications (such as Echolink, DMR, etc...) : How to ensure users coming from Internet are legitimate ham radio operators ? Everybody adopts its own solution, with more or less problems, but always with a huge overhead.
If we can provide a network-level authentication on 44net (still to be defined), then, the application developers would just have to focus on their app, and not about user authentication. Checking whether an user is a legitimate ham radio or not would be as simple as checking if the source IP is in the 44net range...
Well, I don't think network level security is usable for that. Right now, half the users do not even make their reverse-DNS working, so you cannot tell whom the incoming connects are coming from. And when that would be resolved, it is much too easy to spoof.
This should be solved by validating licensed hams and assigning them an authentication token, like a certificate or for simpler cases a username/password. As we have discussed before, we certainly could use a well defined way to do that validation and hand out the tokens. But once you have that, it would be usable just as well over the plain internet. As LOTW and Echolink already do.
Rob