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[owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)]

I think there is a key misconception here. 

The original IANA delegation to â??Amateur Radio Digital Communicationâ?? was not to any organization with such a name, but was a statement of the purpose of the delegation. An individual who initiated the process took on the administration of the block in trust on behalf of the global amateur radio community. At the time of this allocation, there was only one global IP address registry and no such thing as an RIR. 

The subsequent formation of an organization by that name and transfer of administrative control into that organization went largely without objection by the amateur radio community because:

1. Most of us probably didnâ??t even know it happened. 

2. Those that did likely expected this organization to continue as previous administrators in trust on behalf of the community.