--- In [email protected], John Hays <j...@...> wrote:
>

> This is where I think the Icom implementation added an unnecessary  
> feature. D-STAR protocol has its own useable address space in the  
> callsign fields of the header.  In DV mode there is no reason to  
> assign a callsign an IP address (nor in DD mode either, really).  What  
> I am thinking is we need a D-STAR protocol router and only when the D- 
> STAR protocol needs to be "tunneled" through the Internet is there a  
> need for the D-STAR routers to be able to locate one another and  
> Secure Dynamic DNS would provide that service. Also D-STAR routers  
> could use a variety of transports besides IPv4 to "tunnel" the D-STAR  
> protocol over other networks.
> 

I whole-heartedly, absolutely, 100% agree with this.  Dump the IP address junk 
from D-STAR.

Mark (KB9KHM)


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