Brian, There is another option. And I am kind of surprised it doesn't exist, or maybe it does and I am not aware of it.
Someone who has a BGP announced allocation, like HamWan (for the US) could create their own (open source) portal for remote (non RF-LAN) users. They could also support things like OpenVPN in addition to IPIP, etc. I envisioned a series of regional portals, where non-RF users would hook up with the one closest to them. If you are in Europe for instance, I am pretty sure there is someone over there with a BGP announcement, and there could he a Europe portal for IPIP (and possibly other types of connections) to register with rather than back all the way to UCSD.
Kind of like the regional echolink server idea. I guess that is why I originally asked if the portal Chris was working on would be open source. Chris must have his reasons, let it rest. But nothing prevents someone else from doing an open implementation of their own.
Maybe Brian Kantor can comment. But the other reason I was thinking multiple regional portals was in relation to the continued status of the UCSD gateway should he pass, or some other political thing with the college. Seems Brian Kantor not only is dedicated with technical talent all these years, but has also has started to secure the 44/8 's future by creating a more legal frame work for it to survive (the ARDC board, etc) Kudos to him. Either way I seem to think a more distributed approach of possibly more than one portal makes sense? Not sure how others feel about that. It requires effort, and I believe in not shooting a guy in the foot that is doing something.
That is my .02 Steve, KB9MWR
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Bryan Fields Bryan@bryanfields.net wrote:
Please note, I'm replying onlist as Chris wants to keep this "private" so can't see how messed up this is.