Re: Revising APNIC member "sizes"
David R. Conrad wrote:
> a) additional incentives to choose large or medium over small -- would
> need to come up with the incentives. I came up with are things like
>
> i) allocating a larger than /19 initial block to medium and large
> (currently fixed at /19 for everyoone)
>
> ii) increasing the maximum allocation size from APNIC (currently
> (fixed at /14 for everyone)
>
> iii) increasing the maximum assignment window (currently fixed at
> (/19 for everyone)
The danger will be that people may be able to pay their way through
inefficient allocations?
> iv) lower fees for future APNIC services such as training
This is OK.
> b) removing the tiers completely -- would make billing (marginally)
> easier for APNIC, however would mean all members (regardless of
> ability to pay) would be required to pay around US $5000.
This is OK if it would leave people a choice by allowing them to
form confederations.
> c) tie the "size" to the amount of resources the organization has
> consumed -- is the approach taken by RIPE-NCC, however would imply a
> need to figure out what to do with "historic" allocations and would
> remove choice from the membership
Tie the "size" perhaps to new allocations? Also, the idea is to
figure out the size somehow from the ability to pay, which isn't
really measurable through IP allocation, but rather through stuff
like international bandwidth, internal infrastructure, etc.
> d) use service level for the different tiers instead of size -- throw
> out the use of "size" and instead differentiate on levels of
> service, e.g., have "Gold", "Silver", and "Bronze", with each level
> having its own request queue. Gold requests would be serviced
> before Silver requests which would be serviced before Bronze.
> Might also include an "urgent processing fee" to allow a bronze
> or silver member to upgrade a request to the next higher queue.
This seems reasonable too.
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Miguel A.L. Paraz +63-2-750-2288
IPhil Communications, Makati City, Philippines http://www.iphil.net
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