Who do we know at the ARRL (misappropriation of net 44)?

[Patrick Gray]

Seems pretty devious to me.

   Someone at AMPR hired a PR firm to come up with that "well oiled"
explanation.

Also, to AMPR's advantage, most Ham's don't know about these 'addresses'.

Would've been nice to have a "public outreach" at Hamvention or TAPR to
explain their intentions beforehand.

Murphy's Golden Rule: Who has the Gold, makes the rules.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:08 AM Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:

>
> Apparently the AMPR folks (net 44) have decided to sell a quarter of the
> IPv4 address space that has been entrusted to their care to Amazon in order
> to endow a fund for unspecified purposes.  I’ve heard the number $50mm
> bandied about.  Based on my personal knowledge of the market, that number
> is in the right ballpark (say, within 20%).
>
> AMPR’s side of the story is here:  https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/
>
> Outrage over this deal here:
> https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-July/102103.html
>
> There are parallels being drawn to if the League decided that they could
> make a bunch of money by claiming authority (on the basis that they run the
> band plan) to auction off, say, 23cm because they could get a billion or so
> for 60 MHz of prime real estate.  They don’t do that though; in fact they
> have the Spectrum Defense Fund to fight encroachment.
>
> My personal opinion is that this address space was originally granted for
> the public use of the amateur community and at best this decision
> represents conversion.  I don’t think ARIN did anything wrong here; I am
> quite confident that their processes were followed to a T.
>
> So, who are the right folks to flag this to at the ARRL?  We need to start
> the fraud complaints heading in to ARIN.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -r
>
>
>
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