There is another option. And I am kind of surprised
it doesn't exist,
or maybe it does and I am not aware of it.
Someone who has a BGP announced allocation, like
HamWan (for the US)
could create their own (open source) portal for remote (non RF-LAN)
users. They could also support things like OpenVPN in addition to
IPIP, etc. I envisioned a series of regional portals, where non-RF
users would hook up with the one closest to them. If you are in
Europe for instance, I am pretty sure there is someone over there with
a BGP announcement, and there could he a Europe portal for IPIP (and
possibly other types of connections) to register with rather than back
all the way to UCSD.
Yes, we do have that here in the Netherlands and I think it is also available
in a couple of outer countries (Germany, Finland come to mind).
For IPIP we require registration with
portal.ampr.org, because IPIP is a full
mesh and we only participate in that, but for other protocols no such
registration is required and the tunnel definition is just created locally
at our gateway. We offer GRE, GRE/IPsec, L2TP/IPsec, IPsec tunnel, OpenVPN,
and of course our radio network.
Rob