On May 26, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote: > Yeah, so... the thing is there really are benefits to ham radio for > the community. I 100% believe in that. And yes, there are a lot of > neck beards but, honestly, look at some pictures from a NANOG meeting! > ;) >
Indeed, there is a club call sign for NANOG. ;-) I have it on good authority that N4NOG is registered as follows: N4NOG North American Network Operators' Group ARC C/o Robert Seastrom, PO BOX 9303 McLean, VA 22102 USA Source: http://www.qrz.com > > But so here is a "system" that is capable of playing a key role in > improving many peoples' lives (if actually used), helping in > emergencies, assisting during armageddon (?), etc. There are an awful > lot of netblocks that are used for much less valid things (IMHO)... > but since those make money, everyone endorses it and considers it > "proper". > Given this belief you may want to come stand up for it on the ARIN public policy mailing list where there is currently a policy being discussed that attempts to remove needs basis from the criteria to receive an IPv4 netblock through the directed transfer process. Owen