I’ll add to this in saying that I’m a qualified amateur radio licensed Two issues:
I’ve been denied access to the space twice. Commercial entities are advertising within the space that are not amateur related. The fish smell permeates.... On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 07:34 William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:26 PM Jay R. Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "William Herrin" <b...@herrin.us> >> >> > Personally I've never heard of ARDC. >> >> Amateur Radio Digital Communications is the name that's been on 44/8 >> every >> time I've ever looked at the /8 list, which goes back 2 decades or more. >> >> I never assumed it was an organization at the time. >> > > Yeah... It just seems like holding an asset in trust for a population and > selling that asset without consulting that population (or at least > consulting the organizations the population commonly understands to > represent them) is very fishy business. > > Having read their explanation, I think the folks involved had good reasons > and the best intentions but this stinks like fraud to me. Worse, it looks > like ARIN was complicit in the fraud -- encouraging and then supporting the > folks involved as they established a fiefdom of their own rather than > integrating with the organizations that existed. The "appearance of > impropriety" is then magnified by ARIN deeming the matter a private > transaction between it and the alleged registrants to which the pubic is > not entitled to a detailed accounting. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > -- > William Herrin > b...@herrin.us > https://bill.herrin.us/ >