[194089] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Government agency renting or selling IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Mar 16 20:19:49 2017
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:19:20 -0400
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
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> There's probably a legal mess around a government entity renting IP
> addresses. If the entity is registered as an end user (instead of as
> an ISP) then such rentals might also be considered fraudulent.
On a purely pragmatic level, it's also an exceedingly bad idea to let
a private party who may turn out to be a criminal use IP addresses
authentically registered to your government agency to commit crimes.
As an end-user, you won't be able to SWIP information about the
rental, leading angry law enforcement offers to knock upon your door.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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