Re: [44net] And the fraud begins.

1. The 44/8 (now 44.0.0.0/9 and 44.128.0.0/10) was never owned by "the community" - It was obtained by *an individual* as a resource to be used by the amateur radio community - It passed through a series of individuals and has been used by the amateur radio community (at no charge/no contract) - A wise decision was made to form a public benefit non-profit corporation to own the address space, rather than an individual and it was assigned to that corporation. - That corporation has a board of volunteer directors, who receive no salary, and oversee its operation under their legal by-laws. It has no *members* or shareholders. 2. The portion of addresses that were sold was not in use (with the exception of a block in Germany and the leaders of that community were agreeable - they can adopt new addresses). They were not used in a way that is routed to the general Internet as addressable nodes. 3. The corporation had no formal mechanism to "consult" with the amateur radio community and no obligation to do so. Again, no members and more importantly no contract. 4. People who thought differently, need to study this out and move on. ------------------------------ John D. Hays - K7VE Kingston, WA <http://k7ve.org/blog> <http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays> <http://www.facebook.com/john.d.hays>