Executive Council Meeting (Teleconference) - Thursday 15th March 2007

Minutes

Start: 3:00 pm (UTC+10)

Present:

Apologies:

Agenda:

  1. Officeholders election
  2. Agenda bashing
  3. Minutes from last meeting (27 February 2007)
  4. Fee implications of the IPv6 HD-Ratio change
  5. Financial report for February 2007
  6. NRO update - ICANN contract
  7. AOB
  8. Next meeting

  1. Officeholders election

    • The interim Chair outlined the procedure for electing the three officeholder positions for 2007.
    • Nominations were received for the positions of Chair, Secretary and Treasurer.
    • Kuo Wei Wu was nominated for the position of Treasurer. There being no other nominations Kuo Wei Wu was elected as Treasurer of the Executive Council.
    • Che-Hoo Cheng was nominated for the position of Secretary. There being no other nominations Che-Hoo Cheng was elected as Secretary of the Executive Council
    • Akinori Maemura was nominated for the position of Chair. There being no other nominations Akinori Maemura was elected as Chair of the Executive Council.
    • From this point Akinori Maemura chaired the meeting.

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  2. Agenda bashing

    The following topic was added to the agenda:

    • None.

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  3. Minutes from last meeting (27 February 2007)

    • APNIC 24 preparation is underway. APNIC Secretariat will be in touch with ISPAI next week.
    • The minutes from the meeting on 27 February 2007 were approved.
    • Action ec-07-010: Secretariat to publish minutes from 27 February 2007.

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  4. Fee implications of the IPv6 HD ratio change

    • The HD-Ratio for IPv6 address utilisation was initially set at the value of 0.80, but changed to a value of 0.94, under [prop-031-v002] "Proposal to amend APNIC IPv6 assignment and utilisation requirement policy�".
    • The new IPv6 HD-Ratio will be implemented from next week, but some members have questioned the fee implications. The Director General has produced a brief analysis of the implications.
    • According to the APNIC per-address fee schedule Section 3.33, 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 utilised according to the current HD-Ratio requirement. Because the HD-Ratio is changing then, the fee payable for a given prefix will also change.
    • This proposal was endorsed by the APNIC EC on 25 November 2005, subject to its implementation not having an effect on the per-address fee schedule. Accordingly, the Secretariat has assumed that the new HD-Ratio value of 0.94 will be used in calculating fees for IPv6 address allocations, in accordance with the current per address fee schedule.
    • There was a discussion about the potential fee impacts of this proposal may have on new IPv6 allocations.
    • It was explained that for any given IPv6 address requirement resulting in an allocation larger than /32, the prefix allocated will be smaller, due to the HD-Ratio change. Because the fee is calculated according to the address requirement, it will not increase.
    • For the minimum allocation of /32 however, the fee will increase, from $143 to $674 in the case of an Extra Large member.
    • It was noted that the per address fee is a once-off fee, not an annual fee; for comparison, a non-NIR member holding a /32 must pay an annual fee of $2500.

    [MCL left the meeting at this point.]

    • It was suggested that the EC should not make any decision on this proposal in relation to the fee implications today, and that further discussion should be done before implementation of the proposal.
    • The EC agreed to implement the technical change of this proposal from next Monday, but that the Secretariat should defer any invoicing for IPv6 per-address fees, until the next EC meeting.

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  5. Financial report for February 2007

    • The financial report for February 2007 has been circulated. It includes comparisons with the budget, but since it is early in the year, budget variances are relatively high.
    • The report shows that expenses are currently below budget, but that revenues are slightly above budget due to a large per allocation fee has recently been received.
    • It was noted that many of the meeting expenses from the Bali meeting have not yet been captured and are due to be reported next month.
    • There was discussion of the accounts receivable. It was noted that the majority of the accounts receivable are not yet due for payment. The steps for dealing with overdue accounts were discussed.
    • There were 28 new members, 5 reactivated accounts and 6 closures for February.
    • EC approved the financial report.
    • Action ec-07-011:Secretariat to provide a breakdown of accounts receivable by economies.

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  6. NRO update - ICANN contract

    • There were discussions among the RIR lawyers on the ICANN contract.
    • It was noted that the RIPE NCC Board no longer wants to sign the proposed NRO-ICANN service contract, and does not want to have the NRO involved in the agreement in any substantial role.
    • There are now some discussions about alternative agreements, such as informal non-binding MoUs or similar.
    • It was noted that ICANN is not under any external pressure to sign a formal contract. It was believed that they would be happy with a non-binding arrangement.
    • The signing of the MoU would allow RIRs to pay to ICANN.

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  7. AOB

    • None.

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  8. Next meeting

    • 12 April 2007

    Meeting closed 4:40pm (UTC+10)

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