Bob, User registration and network management are separate functions. I think that after a user registers, any network (address, LAN, etc.) requests go to the coordinator for that address space. By registering, the Net-44 administration community captures contact information. If a network manager disappears, we can reassign the network and have a way to contact everyone on that network. The network manager still is the best source for how LANs and addresses should be allocated. It is just good overall management to have a database of contact information for every net, subnet, and host. ------------------------------ John D. Hays K7VE PO Box 1223, Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 <http://k7ve.org/blog> <http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays> <http://www.facebook.com/john.d.hays> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Bob Tenty &lt;bobtenty(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Hi Chris, I'm not against that a database is created because that is a very good thing to manage the whole thing and improve the network and to get a handle on things. I started this discussion because we have much the fear that requested addresses (or even to be routed subnets) end up in /dev/null or take a very long time. I register these addresses in a very fast turnaround for my subnets if requested. People have bad experiences in this respect with registering stuff as you have noticed in certain locations. To go in the details You can add subnets (Edit Gateway) to my gateways but I don't see any networks in "allocations" for me. that means that be default the address coordination of my subnet(s) is assigned to the Regional/Country coordinator, although I already do that for a very long time before your portal. What happens if I request an allocation, you mentioned that because that is a crucial point.. Will I be listed as address coordinator in networks for that subnet at your portal so that any request by an end user for addresses in that subnet are emailed to me instead of the regional or in our case the country coordinator? (If approved by the powers to be) 73, Bob VE3TOK On 13-02-03 03:56 AM, Chris Smith wrote:

A single IP address such as the one here gets a CIDR mask of /32. A 16 node subnet would get a /28 and this is equivalent to a net mask of 255.255.255.240. Other masks will depend on the size of the network being registered. If a user is registering his single IP then use the /32 mask.