Dear members of the APNIC community
The proposal "Proposal for APNIC annual service fee" is being sent to
this list for comment. It will be presented at the APNIC Member Meeting
at APNIC 22 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 4-8 September 2006. You are invited
to review and comment on the proposal on this mailing list before
the meeting.
The proposal's history can be found at:
http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-040-v001.html
Regards,
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Savenaca Vocea email: save@apnic.net
Policy Development Manager, APNIC sip: save@voip.apnic.net
http://www.apnic.net phone: +61 7 3858 3100
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Welcome to APNIC 22!
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 4-8 September 2006 http://www.apnic.net/meetings
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prop-040-v001: Proposal for APNIC annual service fee
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Author: APNIC Secretariat
<secretariat@apnic.net>
Version: 1
Date: 7 August 2006
Introduction
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Service fees charged to non-member account holders by the APNIC
Secretariat are inconsistent and have become problematic to
administer.
This policy proposal introduces more consistent and manageable service
fees for non-member account holders of APNIC.
Note that this proposal has no impact on APNIC members, who receive
services according to the APNIC Membership fee schedule.
Summary of the current problem
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The non-member services affected include AS Number, IP address, DNS
reverse delegation, and historical resource maintenance services.
1. ASN maintenance
The non-member maintenance fee for ASN delegations is US$50 per year
for each ASN. For historical resources however, any number of ASN
delegations is included under a single maintainer, at a cost of
US$100 per year.
2. IP address assignment
There is a non-member service for IP address assignment, but it is
not well known and is rarely used. In addition, it bears no
resemblance to the membership fee structure and is, therefore,
difficult to explain and administer.
3. DNS reverse delegation
APNIC offers DNS reverse delegation services to non-members, but the
current fee structure is illogical and has never been applied.
4. Historical resource maintenance
Since 2003, a non-member maintenance fee for historical resources has
been in place, charged at the rate of US$100 per year, regardless of
the number of resources being maintained.
APNIC Secretariat staff often spend a lot of time dealing with
non-member account holders explaining the fee differences. Collection of
fees can take longer to chase up and there are insufficient penalties to
deter fee defaulters.
Situation in other RIRs
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ARIN provides a full range of services to both ARIN subscriber
(non-member) accounts and to ARIN members. The same fee structure is
used in either case, so there is no risk of confusion of inconsistency
in fees.
AfriNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE NCC provide services only to member
organisations whose membership status is up to date. Non-member services
are not provided.
Proposal
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The following revisions are proposed to the current non-member service
and fee schedule.
1. Account maintenance
Non-member account holders of APNIC will be charged a service fee of
US$50 per year to maintain an APNIC account, irrespective of their
resource holding.
This service fee will provide access to MyAPNIC for maintaining
account and related information and will allow resource objects to be
maintained within the whois database.
The account maintenance fee will be waived for those settling their
account by credit card payment.
2. ASN maintenance
Non-member account holders will be charged US$50 per year for each
ASN held (whether historical or current).
The non-member AS Number assignment service will still be available
at the existing fee of US$500 per ASN.
3. IP address maintenance
Non-member IP address holders will be charged $50 per year for each
historical assignment held. Current IP address holdings will
continue to be charged at existing rates.
New assignments/allocations of IP addresses to non-members will not
be available.
4. Service revocation
Revocation of resources for non-payment of service fees
- APNIC will revoke and reclaim resources from non-member account
holders who do not pay their annual service fees by the due date.
- APNIC will transfer these recovered resources into the free pool
after 12 months of non-payment from the due date.
- Non-member account holders may request the return of revoked
resources, within 90 days from the due date, subject to a US$100
reversal fee and full payment of all outstanding fees. No returns
will be possible after this time and rights to existing resources
will be lost.
Fee summary
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+----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
| Fee types | Historical | APNIC resources |
| | resources(*) | |
+----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
| Per ASN fee | US$50 | US$50 |
| | | |
| Per IPv4 assignment | US$50 | US$819.20 |
| | | |
| Account maintenance | US$50 | US$50 |
+----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
(*) Historical resources are those which were originally allocated by
other registries, such as Internet, and AUNIC.
Pros/Cons
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Advantages:
This proposal introduces fair and consistent charging for APNIC for
services rendered to non-member account holders. It removes
inconsistencies from the current schedule and will reduce customer
confusion, which in turn will reduce APNIC secretariat workload.
Disadvantages:
In a few cases, organisations cannot sign an APNIC membership
agreement, due to their own constraints (for instance, some
Government organisations are prohibited from entering membership
agreements of any kind). To address this case, a new non-member
service agreement may be established in future, based on the current
membership agreement and member fee schedule.
Effect on APNIC
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No direct effect on the existing APNIC members.
Effect on NIRs
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No direct effect to NIRs.
Implementation
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Immediately after endorsement by the EC.
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