Subj : ARRL Systems Service Disruption
To   : kk4qbn
From : DaiTengu
Date : Tue Jul 02 2024 14:12:53

  Re: ARRL Systems Service Disruption
  By: kk4qbn to Tim Wray on Tue Jul 02 2024 11:51 am

 kk> ARRL is sitting on multi-millions of dollars that theu recieved from the
 kk> sale of a range of ip addresses that were supposed to be set aside for ham
 kk> radio operators, instead I presume they decided it was in all of out best
 kk> interest tp sell them off instead of asking whether we wanted to use them
 kk> are not. and where is this money now? I have'nt seen any of it yet.. I
 kk> would'nt have minded having an ip address or two that I could have used to
 kk> experiment with.

 They didn't sell all of their allotment. only a portion.  You can request a block of IPs from AMPRNet https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Requesting_a_block

And they're not sitting on it, the money is being used to fund grants and scholorships https://www.ardc.net/apply/grants/

AMPRNet still has plenty of IP address space, You can learn more about it here:
https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Main_Page

....I'll tell you one fact - it may be rather boring but it's interesting.

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