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 <[email protected]> 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
