3 Sep
2017
3 Sep
'17
10:20 a.m.
You are far from the first person to make these points. The Board
of Directors is acutely aware of how valuable our address space is
and is actively considering how best to expand our mission to make
better use of it. But we have to move slowly; IP address space is
very much like virginity in that once you lose it, you can never
get it back, so we must be very careful. Thank you for your input.
- Brian
On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 07:06:38AM -0700, pidpawel wrote:
It's important to be aware of the timeline but
this anniversary might
also be a good time to look back at the history and think about the
impact this assignment has made.
What *new* technologies has been developed because of this network?
Which crises have been mitigated using this network? Have it helped to
spread the HAM radio "spirit" to the young people? What other good
things have this network done?
It's very sad for me to say that the only thing I can see about this
network is a bunch of guys trying to stick with old technology (RIP?
please.) at all cost and arguing who is more important in a tree of
people allocating numbers.
A /8 network is a great value nowadays, the IPv4 especially in Europe is
in a huge crisis and getting new addresses is nearly impossible. From
the other hand most of the address space in this network is unused but
when you try to request allocation for yourself you can easily get
rejected because of silly reasons. (I didn't even try to request one for
myself after my friends showed me the coordinator responses.)
There might be some things going on the used parts of the network but I
couldn't find any example that could be genuinely useful to the world.
Could you please prove me wrong or if I'm right try to consider sharing
the address space with a "new" movement of hacking and hackerspaces? HAM
radio should be all about hacking [1] but frankly speaking I don't see
much of it in HAM radio space these days. There are some exceptions -
i.e. "OFDM modem" thread from the last days but there are as rare as
freakin' unicorns.
This message is not meant to be mean. I'm just trying to pinpoint some
things I've seen as an observer of this network and HAM radio (mostly in
Poland but also the "worldwide" parts) and share some ideas how the
things can be done better and provide a better value to the whole world.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
--
I wish you all the best
SQ9PID
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