------------------------------------------------------------------- APNIC Document identity Title: APNIC Non-Member Fee Schedule Short title: non-member-fees Document ref: APNIC-071 Version: 002 Date of original publication: August 1998 Date of this version: 19 July 2002 Review scheduled: n/a Obsoletes: APNIC-053 Status: Obsolete Comments: Obsoleted by APNIC-118 -------------------------------------------------------------------- APNIC Non-Member Fee Schedule 1.0 Introduction This document describes the requirements and fee schedule for non-members to obtain resources from APNIC. This document is the result of actions requested by the APNIC membership at the APNIC Annual General Meeting held January 31, 1997 in Hong Kong. 2.0 Motivation APNIC is a membership based organization, with decisions regarding the implementation of Internet address allocation and registration policies made by the APNIC membership. Membership is open to any organization, regardless of location or function, however as APNIC requires funds to operate, APNIC's costs are recovered via membership fees. In some situations, organizations have no interest in becoming a member of APNIC and, in particular, they are unlikely to require periodic registry services. In such cases, the APNIC membership has recognized the value in having a non-membership fee schedule in which organizations pay a significantly higher one time fee to cover the allocation service with a much lower recurrent fee designed to cover registration services. 3.0 Requirements There are three resources allocated and registered by APNIC that are available to non-members. These resources include: - Internet addresses - Autonomous System numbers - IN-ADDR.ARPA domains The requirements for allocation of each of these resources will be discussed in detail in subsequent sections, however for all resource requests, the requestor must provide a signed service agreement (see Appendix A for a sample). 3.1 Internet addresses APNIC will allocate Internet addresses to non-members under the same constraints as with members, namely those requirements documented in RFC 2050. Additional requirements may be imposed by APNIC prior to allocation, however all such modifications will be documented in the APNIC document store. It must be stressed that APNIC will only allocate as much space as is justified according to the information provided by the requestor, regardless of routability considerations. Due to the rapid growth of the Internet routing system, some Internet service providers are filtering a subset of routing announcements, generally long prefix announcements. As such, APNIC *strongly* encourages all organizations to obtain address space from their service provider instead of from APNIC directly. 3.2 Autonomous System numbers APNIC will assign autonomous system numbers to non-members under the same constraints as with members, namely those requirements documented in RFC 1930. Additional requirements may be imposed by APNIC prior to allocation, however all such modifications will be documented in the APNIC document store. In general, APNIC will allocate an AS number to sites which are multi-homed or will be multi-homed within a two week to one month time frame. 3.3 IN-ADDR.ARPA domain delegations APNIC will delegate IN-ADDR.ARPA domains to non-members under the same constraints as with members, namely that the proposed name servers be correctly configured and at least two name servers are nominated. Additional requirements may be imposed by APNIC prior to allocation, however all such modifications will be documented in the APNIC document store. 4.0 Fee Schedule In order to insure APNIC has sufficient resources to provide services to non-members, APNIC has instituted the following fee schedule for resource allocation and registration services. It should be noted that these fees apply immediately upon receipt of an allocation or registration service, however payment of such fees does NOT insure APNIC will allocate the resources. Specifically, APNIC is explicitly not selling resources, only the allocation and registration services are being offered. 4.1 Internet addresses The Initial fee for the allocation of Internet addresses is US$1.00 per host or site address, with a minimum fee of US$8,192.00. The annual registration fee is US$0.10 per host or site address per year fee following the initial allocation, with a minimum fee of US$819.20. Failure to pay the registration service fee will result in the registration record being removed from the APNIC database, thus making the address space available for re-allocation. A host or site address is /32 in IPv4 and /48 in IPv6. 4.2 Autonomous System numbers The price for the assignment of an autonomous system number is US $500 per AS number. If a contiguous block of AS numbers is requested but not fully justified, APNIC will reserve the (partially justified) block of AS numbers for US $100 per AS number. Registration services for autonomous system numbers will be assessed a US $50.00 per AS number per year fee following the initial allocation, with reserved AS numbers being assessed a fee of US $10.00 per year. Failure to pay the registration service fee will result in the registration record being removed from the APNIC database, thus making the autonomous system number available for reassignment. 4.3 in-addr.arpa delegations The price for an in-addr.arpa delegation is US $50 per "natural class boundary" delegation. Since the in-addr.arpa domain name tree still maintains the concept of address classes, for each in-addr.arpa entry requested in the domain name system APNIC will assess a US $50 fee. Thus, the in-addr.arpa delegation fees for non-members can be summarized as: Prefix Length Fee ------------------------------ /32 $50 /30 $200 /29 $400 /28 $800 /27 $1600 /26 $3200 /25 $6400 /24 $50 /23 $100 /22 $200 /21 $400 /20 $800 /19 $1600 /18 $3200 /17 $6400 /16 $50 There is no recurrent fee for in-addr.arpa domains, however APNIC will remove in-addr.arpa delegations that are not maintained after reasonable attempts are made to inform the maintainer of the impending removal. 4.4 Fee Schedule Summary The following table summarizes the non-member fee schedule: +---------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Allocation Service | Unit | Fee | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------+ | Internet Addresses | Host or site address* | US $1.00** | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------+ | Autonomous System Numbers | AS Number | US $500.00 | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------+ | in-addr.arpa Domains | classfull in-addr domain | US $50.00 | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------+ +---------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Maintanence Service | Unit | Fee/Year | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------+ | Internet Addresses | Host or site address* | US $0.10***| +---------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------+ | Autonomous System Numbers | AS Number | US $50.00 | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------+ | in-addr.arpa Domains | classfull in-addr domain | US $0.00 | +---------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------+ * A host or site address is /32 in IPv4 and /48 in IPv6 ** The minimum initial fee for Internet addresses is US$8,192.00 *** The minimum annual registration fee for Internet addresses is US$819.20