13 Jan
2016
13 Jan
'16
9:48 p.m.
Sorry, it's not Brian Kantor's network (even though I kindly acknowledge
all of the work that he's put in!).
It's the amateur radio community's network.
My take is different:
What is the current process?
Who believes that they're not being properly served by that process?
What percentage of requests does that amount to? What are the issues?
How much work would it take to improve the current process by X%?
If the number of issues vs. the number of requests is less than about
10% - the current system is operating better than the majority of
systems (of any kind) out there!
If the number of issues is significantly above 10%, and the amount of
work that it would take is small - it's worth looking at on its own merits.
If none of the above is evident, it only makes sense to change if there
are people willing to dedicate the effort to the change and support the
result. This is a hobby about technology and change, so it's OK to
propose change even if the result isn't huge. We'd still be on AM on HF
if we didn't grow thanks to technological change.
That doesn't make it imperative, however, and maybe an alternative is to
apply change to a subset of the allocations - a new, automated system
doesn't have to take over all of the 44 net, it could be set up for
selected subsets to test and innovate on.
- Richard, VE7CVS
On 1/13/16 6:02 PM, Brian wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages)
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Sam;
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 10:30 +1000, VK4AA Sam wrote:
Sounds way over the top to me for a hobby... It
is not that we are
protecting the crown jewels
My 5c worth
If it works dont touch it as it will destroy it
I'm in agreement with you.
This isn't something you can do just because
you pass a test and get a ham license, this is something we've been
blessed with out of the kindness of a single individual who was
intelligent enough to reserve a /8 IPv4 subnet and share it with the
rest of the world for amateur usage.
How BK wants his network to run is entirely up to him (and ARDC).
We should respect his wishes and keep in the back of our minds that at
any time he could sell the /8 off to a commercial entity - which would
be like cashing in a current jackpot powerball ticket, and these more
recent conversations would all be mooted by default.