I have so many words for the conspiracy theorists and negative naysayers, but I’ll hold that back and not contribute to the shitstorm.
My main concern is what will stop the ARDC board from selling the next 25% or 50% of 44 space? The AMPR community wasn't involved what so ever on this first sale of 25%! I guess the ARDC bylaws allowed for full control of moves like this but I sure would have hoped that the community would have been consulted and ideally, some sort of vote would have been cast.
I do admit that there was a large chunk of address space going unused and maybe a sale was warranted. NOT finding the true market value of say many /20s or larger subnets to various companies that could afford those lower costs around the globe just seems wrong on various levels. There are a LOT of companies that need IPv4 space yet they were excluded? Selling this huge chunk to Amazon for what I firmly believe is below market rate seems native at possibly suspicious at the worst.
--David KI6ZHD