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> From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
> Personally I've never heard of ARDC.
Amateur Radio Digital Communications is the name that's been on 44/8 every
time I've ever looked at the /8 list, which goes back 2 decades or more.
I never assumed it was an organization at the time.
Yeah... It just seems like holding an asset in trust for a population and selling that asset without consulting that population (or at least consulting the organizations the population commonly understands to represent them) is very fishy business.
Having read their explanation, I think the folks involved had good reasons and the best intentions but this stinks like fraud to me. Worse, it looks like ARIN was complicit in the fraud -- encouraging and then supporting the folks involved as they established a fiefdom of their own rather than integrating with the organizations that existed. The "appearance of impropriety" is then magnified by ARIN deeming the matter a private transaction between it and the alleged registrants to which the pubic is not entitled to a detailed accounting.