[194090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Government agency renting or selling IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Thu Mar 16 20:28:03 2017
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:27:57 -0700
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On 3/16/17 17:19, William Herrin wrote:
>> 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.
Or they're the perfect set of addresses to use for criminal purposes.
~Seth
