Proposed revision to IPv6 fee structure for Confederations

["Paul Wilson" <pwilson@apnic.net>]

Dear NIR members of APNIC,

At its recent meeting in Yokohama, the APNIC Executive Council
considered the issue of IPv6 fees for confederation members of APNIC,
including some comments submitted by NIR members.

In order to accommodate the inputs received, the APNIC EC developed a
proposed variation of the IPv6 per-address fee structure, which is
documented in the attached revision of Section 4.3 of the APNIC fee
schedule.

In summary, the proposed revision of the IPv6 per-address fee structure
takes into account the lower utilisation of IPv6 address blocks, by
applying the per-address fee only to the addresses which are expected to
be utilised within a given IPv6 address block.  This utilisation figure
depends on the size of the address block in accordance with the
HD-Ratio, as explained in the IPv6 policy document.

A draft revision to section 3.4 of the APNIC fee schedule is attached,
as an HTML document.

For comparison, the current complete APNIC fee schedule is available at:

  http://www.apnic.net/docs/corpdocs/member-fee-schedule.html


The APNIC EC would like to solicit any comments on this proposal prior
to adopting it in advance of the coming APNIC-14 Open Policy Meeting, in
Japan next month.

If you have any comments, please submit them to this mailing list, or to
me directly at <dg@apnic.net>.


Thanks and best regards,



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Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC                      <dg@apnic.net>
http://www.apnic.net                            ph/fx +61 7 3858 3100/99
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See you at the 14th APNIC Open Policy Meeting          Kitakyushu, Japan
http://www.apnic.net/meetings/                        3-6 September 2002
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