[194091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Government agency renting or selling IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Thu Mar 16 20:39:11 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:39:03 +0000
In-Reply-To: <6c8db50a-27dc-be1c-72e2-ba9b77c3cea9@rollernet.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Bill,
Is there a technically a restriction preventing swiping of this IP space wh=
en it's being rented? How is that different from an ISP swiping its custom=
ers that are renting bandwidth?
-mel via cell
> On Mar 16, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
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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.
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> Or they're the perfect set of addresses to use for criminal purposes.
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> ~Seth
