Speak for yourself. :)
>The rules of the modern Internet are "encrypt everything and trust nothing." The laws of ham radio are literally "you must not encrypt anything". It wasn't meant to be, unless you want to change the laws in every ITU member state.
More to the point, the regulations around third-party communications [0] mean that this could never be routable from the public Internet.
And if 44/8 will never be routable, then what's the point of using public addresses? It could use private network addresses instead.
All the same, I find ARDC's response to be high-handed. They refuse to acknowledge that they are selling off what is essentially a public resource. They refuse to believe that others might not trust them to be a responsible steward of ~$50 million.