[Dstar] Registration

[Tony Langdon]

At 01:15 PM 3/3/2009, you wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:37:20AM +1100, Tony Langdon wrote:
> > Well, the link won't load, because the gateway has been taken offline
> > (the registration page is on the gateway machine).
>
>That is an unfortunate design feature.  Internet services these days
>separate authentication servers from delivery servers, in order to
>increase availability.

I have to agree.  D-STAR's model has some issues, as recent events 
with VK3RWN showed.  When the gateway died, the old registrations had 
to be purged from the Trust server in the US.  Given there's a lot of 
central control, I don't understand the model Icom used.  Just seems 
to be a recipe for breakage. :-/  The reasons for this design might 
have something to do with allocating IP addresses, since these are 
(from what I understand) allocated by the gateway.

But we're stuck with it.  I'm sure Richard and Peter can explain in 
more detail. :)

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