Subject: Re: [44net] Is someone read the contact us in the portal ? From: Brian Kantor Brian@UCSD.Edu Date: 01/08/2016 06:53 PM

To: AMPRNet working group 44net@hamradio.ucsd.edu

The question of automating address assignment has been looked into; about the only way it could be done would be if we had a secure method of making sure that the applicant is a bona fide ham radio operator. At the moment, the only known automated way of doing this is to use Logbook of the World certificates, which greatly restricts the number of people who could prove their eligibility and has its own set of problems.

Also the experience with automation projects is that they often get stranded partly completed, for all kinds of reasons. The question often is what is better: a working manual system or a partially finished automated system that does not offer the flexibility that a manual system has. (e.g. w.r.t. correcting mistakes, accommodating special situations, handling a large batch of updates, etc)

Rob