Randy,

In message 17207.21125.739090.657268@roam.psg.com "Re: [sig-policy] Final call for comments: [prop-028-v001]"AbolishingIPv6 per address fee for NIRs"" "Randy Bush randy@psg.com" wrote:

| > However it is really disappointing for me to hear you say | > like that multiple lauguage and culutural system is too | > complicated and it should be abolished. | | wow! i missed where i said that. please do not put silly words in | my mouth/keyboard. i do that enough. :-) | :-) I admire you for understanding multi-cultural communication.

| with the burn rate of ipv4 space, especially by apnic and ripe, it | will run out very soon. what is a small percent of apnic revenue | today will be the majority of its revenue in five years. | That's another important agenda. Currently APNIC's membership fee is based on IPv4 address block size which is bigger than IPv6 one in almost all members.

The situation of IP address usage has been and will be changing and some day we will need fix. NIRs community thinks PAF scheme no longer fits to adjust the contribution

from NIRs. I admit that such topics are not of policy but

of business operations of APNIC, but SIGs are working for having open discussions.

Regards, Akinori