The Department, as the provider of the State Network, shall own, manage and establish standards for the communications addressing, directory services, and the state numbering plans for State computing and telephony communications and the State Network. This applies to the following:

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    (1) For all Internet Protocol Versions later than Internet Protocol Version Four, the Department shall distribute and/or authorize addresses to Customers of the network, and/or delegate management of subsidiary groups of addresses to Customers of the network. No Required User shall seek ownership or usage of any Internet Protocol addresses through any source other than the Department.
    (2) For all phone numbers, regardless of when they were distributed, the Department shall distribute or authorize numbers to Customers, or delegate management of subsidiary groups of numbers to Customers.
    (3) All private Internet Protocol Version Four addresses used on the State Intranet that are intended to be used outside the Customer’s Sub-network shall be registered with and approved by the Department of Management Services. Duplicate registrations will be found in favor of the first registrant.
    (4) Upon request from the Department, Customers shall provide the Department with a full listing and usage status classification of all of the non-private numbers, addresses or series of numbers or addresses that are held, reserved, used by or scheduled for usage by the Customer.
    (5) Telephone numbers and electronic addresses provided by the Department as part of the SUNCOM Service offering belong to the Department and cannot be given to another entity without the Department’s express written consent should the SUNCOM Service offering be suspended.
    (6) Required Users shall cooperate with the Department’s efforts to carry out these responsibilities and other Customers shall cooperate with such efforts as they relate to the SUNCOM Services purchased by the Customers.
Rulemaking Authority 282.702(2), (9), 282.707(2) FS. Law Implemented 282.702(2), (8), (12), 282.703, 282.704, 282.705, 282.706, 282.707 FS History-New 6-25-08, Amended 5-19-22.