Government agency renting or selling IP space

[bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)]

> 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.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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