Re: [44net] An anniversary of a sort - 36 years

Couple of points: Current users of IPv4 44 group are international amateur radio operators that are currently far beyond mainstream amateur radio casual users of the 'World Wide Web', using their knowledge in non-Windows based programs and techniques with a steep learning curve, as I understand it. Therefore, there is little to no popularized appeal to the casual potential amateur radio user of 44 group addresses. As for me, a casual reader of this group, I would love to be able to create a sub-net in the 44 reserved area within my devices (desktop, laptop, notebook, smartphone or tablet, smart ham radio) and be able to link or 'tunnel in' and share my home station equipment outputs, or to remote my station and related equipment. Some missed or forgotten opportunities I would like to have seen using an IPv4 44 group address in amateur radio might be: Subnet for my amateur radio used computers (using ipconfig); Packet wormhole (yes, I used them in the past, but life is too short for 1200 baud PBBS); APRS-IS (tier 1, 2, 3 and more, especially everyday users using aprs.fi and others); Echolink and IRLP (or any future Voice over IP - VOIP); WinLink 2000 (for last mile Internet carried email via amateur radio); Remote Station (individual or club station linking by a more modest operator station); HSMM (High Speed Multi Media/ Mesh); Amateur Television and who knows what else in my amateur radio future. Instead, amateur radio operators are instead using commercial addresses allotted from ISP vendors, where costs prohibit an assigned fixed address. Perhaps the ISP may be route to their 44 group address from any assigned and random address, If only they could convince their ISP provider to let them use an alias subnet from the 44 group, easily obtained by a non-existant central registry. *If we can not make the 44 group more available with good to fair popularizing of applications to everyday amateur radio operators, it will be gone before we know it. * With a larger base of everyday 44 group users in our amateur radio community, there would be more justification for future dedicated assignments in IPv6 addresses. We were lucky to get IPv4 block fro amateur radio experimentation, and it seems one (or more) individuals were able to make it so. Thanks for that, but it sad the window is closing on this era. 73 de Pat KC6VVT R. Patrick Ryan ARS: KC6VVT, ASEC/IL, OES/IL, Grid: EN51lf, email: kc6vvt(a)gmail.com Facebook for ham related: http://www.facebook.com/KC6VVT/info On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Tom Cardinal <ki4szj(a)gmail.com> wrote: