Re: Government agency renting or selling IP space

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

Bill,

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 customers that are renting bandwidth?

-mel via cell

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us> wrote:
>
> 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