<div dir="ltr">Seems pretty devious to me.<div><br></div><div> Someone at AMPR hired a PR firm to come up with that "well oiled" explanation. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, to AMPR's advantage, most Ham's don't know about these 'addresses'. </div><div><br></div><div>Would've been nice to have a "public outreach" at Hamvention or TAPR to explain their intentions beforehand.</div><div><br></div><div>Murphy's Golden Rule: Who has the Gold, makes the rules.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:08 AM Rob Seastrom <<a href="mailto:rs@seastrom.com">rs@seastrom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div>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%).</div><div><br></div><div>AMPR’s side of the story is here: <a href="https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/" target="_blank">https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Outrage over this deal here: <a href="https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-July/102103.html" target="_blank">https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-July/102103.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>So, who are the right folks to flag this to at the ARRL? We need to start the fraud complaints heading in to ARIN.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>-r</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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