Surely trying to ping the HAM portion of 44/8 from the Internet is an inherently flawed concept? Part of the provisions for use (e.g. in the UK) was that only

Surely trying to ping the HAM portion of 44/8 from the Internet is an inherently flawed concept? Part of the provisions for use (e.g. in the UK) was that only HAM traffic (not third party) can be carried over the airways. So if it was possible to ping / traceroute the 44/8 net from the Internet, the echo requests would be third party traffic. Hence why most of the radio use has been completely separated from the Internet use of this block, essentially disconnected VRFs. Some countries may allow for minor volumes of third party traffic, and rules may have been related since I was active on packet radio. So the reservation of the 44 net always struck me as more a case of enabling a multi-homed HAM operated machine to be connected to both the Internet and the radio nets, and picking which to connect to based upon that simple address block, but it should not be forwarding traffic between the two. One can tunnel radio traffic through the Internet, but not vice-versa.