2025-07-11 — Zero Retries Enters Its Fifth Year, What’s New at DLARC — Packet Radio History, Ten More Days for Comments re: AST SpaceMobile, Year Five of the Zero Retries Experiment In Progress
Steve, I echo your desire to have some kind of standards tracking body within the hobby. I think that interoperability should be preferred, but obviously if the nature of the experimentation just doesn't make it technically feasible, that's not a huge deal. But I think that honestly some effort should be made to 'untie' (unite) the dyslexic hobby that is Amateur Radio and that some sort of tracking body might help that. There are so many parallel efforts, of which some do have honest novel ideas, but some of which might be better served by pulling together. And I think a lot of it is due to simply not being aware of these parallel efforts.
John - Thanks for your support. This just seems like such an obvious need but as with so many things in Amateur Radio, it comes down to who could / would do the work? And it's not like grant funding would help create this as there's no significant expense to it other than perhaps funding for website hosting that won't spam you with ads. It just boils down to a matter of is there enough widespread support to come together to do so.
To show how far back in the TCP/IP world BBN goes, they have the BGP Autonomous System Number (ASN) of 1.
Uncle - Agreed! BBN was a legend in the early days of the Internet. It's a shame that name was subsumed into another corp.
Steve, I echo your desire to have some kind of standards tracking body within the hobby. I think that interoperability should be preferred, but obviously if the nature of the experimentation just doesn't make it technically feasible, that's not a huge deal. But I think that honestly some effort should be made to 'untie' (unite) the dyslexic hobby that is Amateur Radio and that some sort of tracking body might help that. There are so many parallel efforts, of which some do have honest novel ideas, but some of which might be better served by pulling together. And I think a lot of it is due to simply not being aware of these parallel efforts.
John - Thanks for your support. This just seems like such an obvious need but as with so many things in Amateur Radio, it comes down to who could / would do the work? And it's not like grant funding would help create this as there's no significant expense to it other than perhaps funding for website hosting that won't spam you with ads. It just boils down to a matter of is there enough widespread support to come together to do so.