44Net

In my last post I shed some light on how I feel there are good things being funded by the ARDC, but in the end its not really changing a whole lot.

It's origional inception was loaning address space to hams. And when you read their page:

"The goals are to of advance the state of the art of Amateur Radio networking, and to educate amateur radio operators in these techniques."

It's not clear what people are doing within the space. Is any of it aligning with the above stated goals? Or is the bulk of address space merely being used as an extension of the internet?

I'm a bit of an advoate for building the 44 intranet (read that again). The internal network. I have pointed out somethings a while back.

I'd also like to see some networking advancements. Are there any hams as cool at Brian Kantor these days, writing new protocols like he did way back when with NNTP? Could hams contribute to a movement to get the rest of the world to better adopt IPv6?

The problem as I see it, is a lack of direction. Identifiying things that ought to happen, (be researched written or built) and matching that with a bounty grant makes more sense to me than doling out the cash when ever club wants to have an ARES trailer.