An example: if I'm the San Diego county coordinator, and I assign a /24 to AA6ZZ for a gateway in the Santee city area, he can become the coordinator for that /24, and assign addresses from his block of 256 addresses to the clients of his gateway. Likewise: 44.0.0.0/9 is assigned to the USA, with me as the current USA coordinator, 44.124.0.0/16 is assigned to Arizona and handled by the AZ coordinator 44.124.128.0/24 might be assigned to a gateway in Phoenix who would then handle address assignments for the clients of that gateway. So by registering gateway operators as coordinators for their gateway's subnet, we localize the network management to the people who are the best situated to handle it. A new ham in Phoenix who wants to get on AMPRNet registers, goes to the networks section, clicks on USA, clicks on Arizona, sees the gateway registered in his area, and clicks on that to request an allocation. The gateway operator picks an available address, say 44.124.128.17, registers it and things are good to go. No need to wait for the state or national coordinator. You don't have to register nor log in just to view the network allocations and who the coordinator is, so folks who just want to know if there's a subnet or gateway in their area can see. - Brian