Transfer of membership between APNIC and NIRs

[John Tran <john@apnic.net>]

Hi all,

If there is no further comment or suggestion for the procedure for transfering membership
between NIRs and APNIC by this Friday then we will edit the draft and make this procedure
as an official document.

Thanks

son

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Part 1

In the case of an ISP which transfers membership from APNIC to an NIR,
the following conditions should apply:

1. APNIC should freely allow member ISPs to join NIRs in their country
and to receive all address registry services from the NIR (including
resource allocation and registration), wherever this is preferred.

2. In these cases, management responsibility for the ISP's address space
and registration records will be transferred from APNIC to the NIR.  The
ISP will no longer receive any service from APNIC in relation to the
address space received from APNIC.
(this will only apply if an isp wish to has only membership with NIR. An ISP 
can has membership with both NIR and APNIC. For example an isp can maintain 
existing membership with APNIC for using IP address that they already have 
and become an NIR member for all new Ip address which they will need in the 
future. It should be note that an organisation should obtain resources from 
only one source)


3. The existing address space holdings of the ISP will be transferred to
the NIR's management(if and only if APNIC membership is ceased), and this 
address space therefore contribute to the assessment of the NIR's membership 
category in the next membership renewal.

4. APNIC will impose no per-address fee for the transfer, and no further
charges on the ISP in relation to Internet resources previously
allocated to that ISP.


Part 2 - Transfer of Membership from NIR to APNIC

In the case of an ISP which transfers membership from an NIR to APNIC
and to receive services from APNIC, the following conditions should
apply:

1. NIRs should freely allow member ISPs to join APNIC and to receive all
address registry services from APNIC (including resource allocation and
registration), wherever this is preferred.

2. Management responsibility for the ISP's address space and
registration records will be transferred from the NIR to APNIC.  The ISP
will no longer receive any service from the NIR in relation to the
address space received from the NIR.

( the same procedure as in part 1 point 2 also applies here).

3.The ISP will become an APNIC member and the APNIC membership tier will be
assessed in the next membership renewal on the basis of all address space
managed by APNIC, that is, including both the transferred address space, and
any address space received from APNIC.

4. The NIR will receive an allocation of address space from APNIC which
is equal in size to the transferred address space, and no per-address
fees will be charged.  The address space will be allocated at the time
of the next NIR request to APNIC, and must be justified by the NIR in
the normal way.

5. The NIR should impose no further charges on the ISP in relation to
Internet resources previously allocated to that ISP.

Note: 
i)An organisation can be a member of both NIR and APNIC but can only
obtain resource services from one source.
ii) Currently there is no charge for the transfer by both APNIC and NIRs.