It is not clear to me what you are getting at here! These are different layers of the cake. Your radio experimentation will result in some way to transport bits from A to B, but not in a network. To build a network you need another layer, and a way to define what you need to send where to get your message to the destination. That is what BGP is handling. By using BGP instead of static routing, we can connect many radio links and other links together and make a network out of it without getting buried in manual routing chores.
Please make sure you understand that the use of BGP I am mentioning here has nothing to do with the use of BGP on internet to route all the internet networks.
Dear Rob,
I am not confused, I am purposely trying to broaden the discussion (that's why I changed the Subject header). What you describe above is true, and is also completely unfamiliar except in a vague way to most people, including most amateur radio operators. How does what you are describing actually work? What does it mean to define what you need to get your message to the destination? I'm not asking you to try to answer those questions here (and I know the answers myself). I expect that many who read what you have just written will have those sorts of questions. That is the gap that I am identifying, and I am proposing that ARDC consider education specifically in this area (given that they asked if education was important).
73s William VE0HAK