[44net] routable or private?

If this is, " a hack to backbone a semi-private network on top of the public internet" then why do we need 44/8? Please explain why 10/8 would not work just as well?

[....] if it's not going to be routable then why do we need 44/8? use RFC1918 space and give 44/8 back. [...] We could attract many into this hobby if we'd simply offer to be the teachers of the IP networking craft using standards based methods used by everyone else

across

the internet.

PRECISELY.

Can we please make a decision on this and move ahead?

I'd like to know, one way or the other, because I sure aint interested in all this private 44net stuff..

Is 44net routable or private?

Steve