Steve,
As others have said, you can be accessible from the Internet from 44-net address space if you want to be.
If you want to be assigned an allocation that you can advertise via BGP and have an ISP willing to work with you, talk with your regional coordinator and Brian to get an allocation.
Others have different opinions and wish to manage access to their allocations differently. You may disagree with them, but please be respectful of their opinions.
At this point you seem to be the only one stirring up "some irrational waste-of-time argument" and complaining about the state of things without either proposing alternative solutions or volunteering to help make things better.
Therefore, I will be no longer engaging you on this or other issues.
-Neil
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Steve Wright stevewrightnz@gmail.com wrote:
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If the answer to either of the above is "yes", then there is the potential for traffic which violates radio licensing laws to be carried by radio.
And
after all, I thought RADIO was what 44-net was supposed to be about?
No, 44net is a PUBLIC IP address range. There are plenty of PRIVATE IP ranges that we can freely and arbitrarily use without care or regard whatsoever, and the 10/8 network is large enough for hams to build a substantial world-wide network without further ado.
Why my main concern is with all this 44net stuff, and what we're seeing a lot of, is peoples' scaremongering and huge propensity to self-regulate and self-police to the absurd, resulting in the 44net never being any more than another reason to have an argument on some forum and then sit back on our arse and do nothing whatsoever. If this is actually going to be the case then my recommendation would be to find some facebook group or other forum to put ones' efforts into, and see if you might stir up some irrational waste-of-time argument there, because doing it in a 44net forum is likely to, at the very least, cause quite a few people to just give up, and at the very worst, have someone very concisely and perhaps not so politely explain the problem to you.
Steve