Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace.

The proposal to give amateur radio operators some IPv6 emerged in an IETF draft that appeared in early November.

Sole author Preston Louis Ursini, who operates the Paducah Internet Exchange and participates in internet policy development processes, points out that amateur radio operators need an addressing system and the IPv4 bloc assigned to the community has done the job for years.

That bloc, 44/8, is a little controversial because Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), the foundation that exists to support amateur radio and digital communication sc

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