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RE: [Wg-apnic-fees] APNIC membership fee structure proposal



Dear Akai,

However, I don't know how an revenue increase of 10-15% will be used.
I cannot explain New fee structure (include unknown New Activity) to our
company,

The point I have made is that the proposed revenue increase is important for the maintenance of *existing* APNIC activities, which are currently operating on a balanced budget. Future service increases such as resource certification, along with unforseen events, could certainly undermine the current stability of APNIC services under these circumstances.

# Do you explain to our president, Masayoshi Son? :-P

I would be happy to discuss with Son san the market value of the address space that your company has received in recent years, however I am sure that he is already well aware of that. :-)


I collected RIR's annual membership fee.
(I cannot find RIPE/NCC tier/Size table)
Current APNIC fee is similar other RIR until /10.
But proposal fee structure is greatly quite different from those.

If this proposal is approved, the IP fee rises terribly in the AP region.
What is the reason why the charge jumps up in the so much?
What is the reason why only APNIC and other RIR are different?

Please refer to page 5 of the proposal document, which is available on the APNIC website at:

http://www.apnic.net/meetings/22/docs/amm-disc-wilson-fees-proposal.pdf

According to this calculation the total increase for regular APNIC members is 2% overall. This does not seem to represent a large increase. Of course, for larger APNIC members the fees would increase by around %130, however this is justified by the principle of fairness which I think you have supported.

Even under the proposed structure, the effective annual cost per IP address is still much lower for large members, as follows:

  Prefix   Addresses        Tier      Annual     Annual/address
       6    67108864           I     $92,160     $0.0014
       7    33554432           I     $92,160     $0.0027
       8    16777216           I     $92,160     $0.0055
      10     4194304           H     $46,080     $0.0110
      12     1048576           G     $23,040     $0.0220
      14      262144           F     $11,520     $0.0439
      16       65536           E      $5,760     $0.0879
      18       16384           D      $2,880     $0.1758
      20        4096           C      $1,440     $0.3516
      21        2048           C      $1,440     $0.7031
      22        1024           B        $720     $0.7031
      24         256           A        $360     $1.4063

According to this table, a member holding a /7 pays an effective annual fee of USD $0.0027 per address while a member holding a /20 pays USD $0.35


########## In case of /7 of IPv4##########
annual membership fee
ARIN    $18,000
Afrinic $20,000
LACNIC  $33,000
APNIC   $40,000  (average +12,250)
# Ave    $27,750
proposaled fee structure $92,160(Current+52,160)

It is true that your company would pay much more under this fee structure. Indeed the RIPE NCC fee for your company would be $5,750.


Best regards,

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Paul Wilson                                 email:     pwilson@apnic.net
Director General, APNIC                     sip:    apnic@voip.apnic.net
http://www.apnic.net                        phone:       +61 7 3858 3100
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