Proposed revision to IPv6 fee structure for Confederations (resend)

["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
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Title: 3

3.4

Per-address fee for confederation members

 

In addition to annual membership fees, APNIC confederation members (including National Internet Registry or NIR members) are required to pay per-address fees for all allocations made to them. The per-address fee is payable for allocations of IPv4 and IPv6 address space, as documented below.

 

3.4.1 Per Address Fee

The per-address fee is determined by the membership category of the member, according to the following table:

Membership tier	Fee
Associate	n/a
Very Small	n/a
Small	$0.16
Medium	$0.11
Large	$0.06
Very Large	$0.03
Extra Large	$0.02

In the case of small allocations or assignments, the minimum per-address fee which is payable will correspond to the fee payable for the “minimum allocation”.  This is further explained by example below.

3.4.2 IPv4 Address Space

For an allocation of IPv4 address space, the total per-address fee is calculated according to the total number of addresses actually allocated.

For example, the total fee payable for an allocation of /17 to a Very Large member is calculated as:

32,768 x $0.03 = $983.04

In the case of an allocation which includes a previously allocated block of addresses, only the addresses additionally allocated are included in the total fee calculation.

The minimum per-address fee payable for an allocation or assignment of IPv4 address space will be equal to the fee which is payable for a /20 allocation (4096 addresses).

3.4.3 IPv6 Address Space

For an allocation of IPv6 address space, the total per-address fee is calculated for the prefix allocated according to the number of addresses which should be utilized according to an HD-Ratio of 0.80. 

For more information about the calculation of the HD-Ratio, please see the IPv6 policy document, at:

http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/docs/ipv6-address-policy

The following table provides this utilization information for prefixes from /32 to /29:

Prefix	/48	Utilisation
/32	65,536	7,132
/31	131,072	12,417
/30	262,144	21,619
/29	524,288	37,641

Accordingly for example, the total per-address fee payable for an allocation of /30 to a Very Large member is calculated as:

21,619 x $0.03 = $648.57

In the case of an allocation which includes a previously allocated block of addresses, the total fee calculation is based on the size of the prefix allocated, regardless of the previous allocation.

The minimum per-address fee payable for an allocation or assignment of IPv6 address space will be equal to the fee which is payable for a /32 allocation.