[194097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Government agency renting or selling IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Thu Mar 16 23:13:24 2017
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 03:13:16 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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This agency already is an ISP - they started out as an ISP for other govern=
ment agencies. But I'll verify their ARIN records to be sure ARIN sees it t=
hat way, since they launched as an ISP back in the 1990s.
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> On Mar 16, 2017, at 5:44 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>> Is there a technically a restriction preventing swiping of this IP space=
when it's being rented? How is that different from an ISP swiping its cus=
tomers that are renting bandwidth?
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> Hi Mel,
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> You'd have to ask ARIN to be sure, but I beleive they only accept
> SWIPs for ISP registrants. Nothing stops the agency from
> re-registering as an ISP (ARIN will accept you as an ISP if you want
> to be) but it means new signing new documents (which may be a problem
> with your legal dept) and possibly paying more money each year.
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> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
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> William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us
> Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
