On 06/05/2012 12:11 AM, K7VE - John wrote:

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I don't think you need an ASN to delegate subnets if the hosting provider's ASN is acceptable. I have an old Class-C (Grandfathered, no ARIN membership) and have hosted it at a couple of data centers under their ASNs.

From a technical detail perspective, you are right, but not from a vision and communication aspect.
The way to keep the unique 44/8 ipv4 resource together under radio amateur rules and goals is to keep it under one and only one strong acceptable use policy, not splitting it up in small pieces.
In this way, we can argue that this is a unique, strictly non-commercial network for public good on a global scale, all arguments that are known to open up doors that would otherwise be closed.

Bjorn