Re: 44/8

[Joe Carroll <joe () theneutral net>]

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 <bill () herrin us> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:26 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "William Herrin" <bill () 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
> bill () herrin us
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