Re: [Wg-apnic-fees] Compare RIRs

[MAEMURA Akinori <maem@maem.org>]

Thanks Bill for your comprehensive input.


|     > Why does ONLY APNIC plan to increase fee?
|     
| As you can see, each RIR provides a fairly different set of services, 
| surrounding their core function, at the request of their membership.  
| These services cost very different amounts, not only because of what they 
| are, but because of where they're provided, in what languages, how 
| frequently, to how large a population, how well, and what local costs are 
| associated with making them possible.  
| 
| So while RIPE and ARIN are providing a very small set of services to a 
| large-but-relatively static population, APNIC is providing a large set of 
| services to a large-and-rapidly-growing population.  
| 
| Also, APNIC started out with very low fees, whereas RIPE and to a lesser 
| degree ARIN, started out with fairly high fees.
| 
| So RIPE and ARIN fees have been dropping from high to medium, and APNIC 
| fees may go up from low to medium.
| 
| But I don't think this constitutes a problem.
| 

Akai-san,


Let's look at Paul's slides for example
http://www.apnic.net/meetings/22/docs/nir-pres-wilson-fees.ppt
and recall the presentation.

His explanation for the reasons of increase of the total amount 
of fee were

	quite ballanced financial result in recent years
	increased activities various area like in the fifth slide
	worse exchange rate condition

	no big change in the fee schedule for years


What do you think will justify the 10%-15% increase in addition
to the explanation that is ever made as above?



|     > I think APNIC and members should communicate more often.
| 
| Agreed.
| 
Questions and answers like this thread will contribute for 
the improvement of the communication ;-) .


Regards,
Akinori