I'm also under the impression that anyone can post a public bounty on anyone else, as long as its not a metagame. If you've seen/interacted with ship/character, you can post a bounty, and then any FL or equivalent ID could claim, even yourself. Is it not still this way? And in the case of posting an inrp bounty its up to you who you will allow to claim, so limiting to AFC guys seems like no biggie since it is in the same league as FL.