New subject: Wikipedia article on AMPRNet

6 Nov 2016

...
  Ah, I stand corrected; I've updated the entry. The
section on 44.128/16 was
 pointing to an obsolete article that incorrectly gave the impression that
 that subnet was unroutable like an RFC1918 network, whereas it's really just
 reserved for testing. 
...
  Unfortunately, there's an article on
www.eastnetpacket.net that incorrectly
 states that it *IS* an RFC1918-style network and people outside the AMPRNet
 are quoting it as justification for using the network AS an unrouted network. 
Well, that amprnets.txt file of course has existed and has been maintained on
hamradio.ucsd.edu for many many years.  I have 3 old copies and all of them mention
that it may be assumed that any packets with 44.128 addresses are bogons, so
this text has probably been there for at least a decade if not much more.

Currently this file does not exist anymore at hamradio.ucsd.edu, I presume its
function has been taken over by the "networks" menu item at portal.ampr.org.

However, that listing does not mention 44.128.0.0/16 at all.  When it is desired
to change the definition of this subnet, it may be better to provide an explicit
new definition, instead of trying to remove the old definition from internet
without providing a new one.
I think that is not going to work well, given the way information is stored,
copied and archived on the web.

Also note that this information on portal.ampr.org is only available to registered
users, so it would be wise to put some information on a publicly available site
as well (maybe a description of the subnetting of net 44 at the top level without
all that country-specific info).  That could be on the www.ampr.org site.

Rob

Re: [44net] Wikipedia article on AMPRNet