[arin-discuss] Facebook /20, Google /16

[Owen DeLong]

According to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_operator

There are 722,330 licensed amateur radio operators in the US alone. (2007)
There are more than 1.2 Million in Japan. (1999)

Many of them use TCP/IP over Amateur radio with more than one node.

Owen

On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:04 PM, Mike Berger wrote:

> I don't know how well utilized it is, but there were a lot of packet radio operators, and each needs a unique address.  There are a few hundred thousand licensed amateur radio operators.
> 
> I think anybody complaining about someone elses' allocation based on conjecture ought to open their own up to scrutiny.
> 
> On 9/15/10 3:50 PM, Keefe John wrote:
>> While we're complaining, why does HAM radio have a full /8 that's barely
>> used, if at all?
>> 
>> 
> 
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