44net-request@hamradio.ucsd.edu wrote:
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.
But it has the disadvantage that you spread the rarely occurring task over many people who do it only once and do not have the knowledge and skills to perform it well. I'm afraid this will lead to many wrong subnet specifications (already seen), strange names in the DNS, questions, etc.
I prefer to handle the task for the entire country and have the system only administer what has been assigned, not delegate the subassignments. It is a small country and I get only a couple of requests per year these days.
Rob
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.
But it has the disadvantage that you spread the rarely occurring task over many people who do it only once and do not have the knowledge and skills to perform it well. I'm afraid this will lead to many wrong subnet specifications (already seen), strange names in the DNS, questions, etc.
That's just a learning curve which is easily fixed.
I prefer to handle the task for the entire country and have the system only administer what has been assigned, not delegate the subassignments. It is a small country and I get only a couple of requests per year these days.
The system is flexible, if that is how you want to administer the subnet you are responsible for, then go ahead, all your allocations will therefore be to end users instead of regional co-ordinators and it will be your responsibility to keep the portal up to date and if there are any problems, you will be the point of contact to respond and fix the problem. It's more work for you, but if that is how you prefer to manage your subnet I don't see a problem.
I guess what we need is a facility for co-ordinators to enter allocations to end users manually, I can sort that out.
Regards, Chris
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Rob Janssen