[HamGateSNE] One Month Report

[Charles J. Hargrove]

Since I sent this out 10 days ago, I have been working up the county
layout for your states and it's associated website. The rearrangement
of the subnets to match the counties in your state has allowed alot
more room for expansion and has unique subnets for BGP assignments.

Anyone with a current BGP with an active LOA from ARDC will be able
to keep their current subnet assignment. Some others will need to
move to another subnet that can easily be handled. Take a look at
your state's subnet plan by going to http://hamgatesne.n2nov.net

If your subnet is slated to change, you will receive an email from
me over the next few weeks to start the process. Those who do not
currently have a gateway address set up on the AMPR Portal will be
the first to be moved to a new subnet. As always, feel free to call
me on 917-991-0356 any evening to discuss anything about your subnet.

 > Over the past eight years I have been the coordinator of the New York 
State
 > allocations and organizing by counties right from the start helped to
 > keep things easy to manage. Upon additionally acquiring the ten states
 > that were managed by N1URO, I found that many of them were organized
 > starting at zero and issued incrementally in /29, /28 and /27 blocks
 > with small spaces between them. This hinders growth if a smaller 
allocation
 > needs more space in the future. It also has a scatter-gun approach if
 > there are those in the same county that want to link to each other. That
 > is why I first went through the allocations to see which were still
 > alive and which ones were lanquishing for years on the vine. Now that
 > 90% of them are now cleaned up, it is just a matter of helping them to
 > set up a public gateway and DNS records so that routing can occur across
 > from one allocation to the other over the internet using encap IPIP 
routes.
 >
 > However, the process of reorganizing your state subnet into counties has
 > been a somewhat "fun" and challenging exercise of the past few weeks. 
Each
 > county will now get additional space to grow and branch out without 
bumping
 > into another county. There are also subnet ranges set up solely for any
 > BGP assignments plus some "spare" ranges that can be pressed into service
 > for emergencies without bothering the current allocations. Those that 
will
 > need to move to another allocation range to match the counties will get a
 > private email from me with the details on how to proceed so that the
 > changeover is quick and painless. Some have already done this without
 > issues.
 >
 > My plans are to also set up individual webpages for your state with 
information,
 > tutorials and pertinent links about networking, sample configuration 
files,
 > various flavors of bbs software, etc. As you let me know how your 
allocation
 >
 > is set up with IP addresses and frequencies, we can create a map showing
 > how things are tied together. If you set up one of your IP numbers that
 > points to a service that you want others to see, then we can provide that
 > link as well. Again, you are only limited by what your imagination comes
 > up with.

-- 
Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV
NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.

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