Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
I hate to be a downer, but nobody even knew about this space until it was mentioned here.  I've been a ham for almost 10 years and this is the first I've heard of it.<p>The Internet and ham radio don't mix.  The rules of the modern Internet are "encrypt everything and trust nothing."  The <i>laws</i> of ham radio are literally "you must not encrypt anything".  It wasn't meant to be, unless you want to change the laws in every ITU member state.  By the time that's done, we will all be accessing the Hypernet with IPv20 from our personal space stations.<p>Selling off this IP space to Amazon so that some people can get grants is going to make way better use of this resource than than the ham community ever did.<p>(I like all the people on the nanog list trying to derail it.  "Some of the board members don't have ham licenses!"  Not actually a requirement to manage a ham radio organization.  Only a requirement to transmit a signal.  "There is an antique router configuration out there that creates a peering arrangement between the University of California and Amazon that's not authorized!"  Guess what guys, they'll probably shut down the arrangement.  They're not going to say "welp, there is no way to fix this, here's your money back Amazon!"  The thought that that's a possible outcome is making me laugh.  I am sure Amazon can find a transit provider if they need one.)