Thomas,

I have no interrest in ARDC, I have interrest in ampr.

We had 16 MILLIONS adress, 4 of wich were sold leaving us with a mear 12 millions adress.

Those are IPV4 adress, those have a nice value today, but will be worth nothing in less then a decade or so cause of the deployment of IPV6. This is putting a expery date on those adress.

We still have enough IP adress to assign a lot to every ham in the world.

The direction at ARDC turned an asset into another one that have no expery date, asset that can be used to create money, by legaly and wisely investing in into monetary funds. And from the money made by those funds the whole ham community will gain support.

This was not a cleaver move to do, it was the best move to do.

The ARDC have the legal control over the asset, It is a legaly registered organisation.

Would you have prefered the value of the asset to go down and disapear?

The analogy about the 2 meter band does not stand, First it is in use, and second the RF spectrum is a nationaly controled asset. No one could sell it but the govt.

Would you rather have a govt entity decide to take some part of the IP block? This could happen as there is a major demand for them. Would that be the first time this happended? remember 220 mhz? remember 11 meter?

By extracting value from something that was given to the ham community had not been used and have a soon to be really low value or no value at all or even worst removed from us, the ARDC removed the pressure on govt agency to take it from us (4 million new adress for the world is not that much but it is releasing some pressure). Just look at how they are already changing routings rules to adress that used to be unroutable.. 1.1.1.1 being what come to mind as I dont follow that scene.

I hope that you will understand that, yes it was a bold move, but it is the best move that could be done. and they could have sold half of the 16 million adress and yet we would still have a lot of space to play with. But they sold 1/4 of the lot.. that was a wise move.

Ho! And by the way, how many undreds of adress do you need? you can still have them by the hundreds...

Pierre VE2PF

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I have been watching and using the 44 address group since the great days of packet in the 90s. With work and other obligations, somehow I missed the selling of portions of the 44 block.

IT WAS NOT ANYONE'S TO SELL.

It was setup for the Ham Community at large.

If I try and get a group together and sell a portion of 2 meters is that right? To me it seems to be about what happened here.

Thanks Bryan for trying to let the group know what is being done with these proceeds.

Yes ARRL had a notice. I also do not think the ARRL is the sole news agency for all thing ham radio either.

Just my 2cents

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