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) _______________________________________________ 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.