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[prop-040] Proposal for APNIC non-member annual service fee

Annual Member Meeting8 Sep 2006

APNIC 22, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Motivation

• Clearer service fee interpretations for future requests

• Reduce secretariat staff workload administering non-member accounts

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Definition

• Non-member account– Have allocation from APNIC but not wanting to join

as member– Justify historical resource holding, sign statutory

declaration and non-member agreement

• Historical resource– IPv4 space, ASN’s originally obtained from

registries such as InterNIC, AUNIC, etc.– Registration of these resources now transferred

and managed by APNIC– Resource distributed by APNIC before agreement

was in place (before 1997)

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Problem

• Inconsistent fees charged to non-member account holders– Increased staff time administering billing of

500+ accounts (and increasing!!)– Varied interpretations

• Fee collection– Insufficient penalties to deter defaulters– Time consuming process– Variable bank fees – No reward for early payers

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Existing framework

Service Historical resource APNIC resource

Account maintenance

$100/yr Free

ASN maintenance

$100/yr/maintainer $50/ASN/yr

IPv4 address maintenance

Free with account maintenance

$819.20+ /yr

DNS reverse delegation

$50/zone file entry* $50/zone file entry*

* Never applied

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Proposal: Introduce consistent fees

ServiceHistorical resource

APNIC resource And..

Account maintenance

$50 $50 •Waived if settled via credit card

•MyAPNIC access to all accounts

ASN maintenance

$50/ASN No change

IPv4 address maintenance (includes DNS reverse delegation)

$50/ Assignment

No change •No new assignments or allocations of IP addresses to non-members (withdraw service)

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Proposal - cont’d

• Revoke and reclaim resources from defaulters (currently done for members)

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Effect on APNIC

• No direct effect to existing APNIC members

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Implementation

• As soon as practically possible after endorsement by the Executive Council

• Modify fee level specified in current ‘policy for historical Internet resources’

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Summary

• The secretariat seeks community support and endorsement to – Introduce this consistent fee structure

incorporating account keeping and per-resource fees for all resources

– Revoke and reclaim resources from defaulters who do not pay annual service fee

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Thanks!

save@apnic.net