[ILUG] There's one for everyone in the audience - and even for those who weren't

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Barry Flanagan wrote:

> That has changed then. AFAIK you need a VAS license to provide ISP 
> services.

> However, I don't think allowing others to share your broadband would not 
> constitute being an ISP

Just a wee bit of browsing around comreg.ie should lead the browsee 
to:

   http://www.comreg.ie/sector/default.asp?S=4&NavID=58&M=False

There is no licence required to be an "ISP" (for whatever vague 
meaning it has - comreg use other definitions..), indeed those under 
Irish jurisdiction have a general *entitlement* to operate electronic 
networks[1], providing they /register/. Which can be done online via:

   http://www.comreg.ie/erau/default.asp

I didn't read too closely, but it appears anyone sharing their 
internet access with the 'the public', or indeed operating any kind 
of public-access network, MUST register - the "licence"^Wentitlement 
being based on doing so.

Whether this opens one to having to comply with data-retention laws.. 
:)

1. Just trying to define "Internet" in law would, I think, be so
    difficult that any notion of ISPs (specifically) needing a licence
    to operate should have been viewed with strong scepticism..

regards,
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