Re: [44net] 44net is not just for tunneling

Thank you Brian for your very positive report! I am definitely willing to help myself and I am sure there are many others, both individuals, clubs/associations and institutions, that would volunteer helping with specific items on the todo-list, if there is an opportunity to do so. Regarding the ASN, it is true in a sense that you do not need the specific number until you actually set up peering and/or transit agreements with other operators and start announcing the delegated address space. From a mental/planning point of view it might be enough at this time to state the intention to get ASN, unless you want to start a parallel process to stimulate capacity building and create some order and convergence in the ad hoc arrangements that already exist out there based on earlier delegations. As an interim coordinator trying to map the space earlier delegated to Sweden (44.140/16), which as far as I have been able to find out is mostly unused or misused, I would welcome such a process as part of the overall effort. It would help lot to be able to give a structure and way forward and it would spread awareness that the old delegations will be taken back and replaced with a new scheme, even if the exact details are yet to be ironed out. It seems to me that the unique public good character of global radio amateurism is a good platform to approach all of IARU, ICANN/IANA and all the regional registries from, with a request for a free ASN to facilitate more efficient use of the fantastic ipv4-resource to the next level. I would be happy to provide feedback, or even participate in the wording of such a request. A (next?) step perhaps is to also ask for a provider independent ipv6 space, and point at how this might help accelerate the transition. Bjorn