------------------------------------------------------------------- APNIC Document identity Title: APNIC Member Fee Schedule Short title: member-fee-schedule Document ref: APNIC-120 Version: 002 Date of original publication: 18 June 2009 Date of this version: 5 November 2012 Review scheduled: n/a Obsoletes: APNIC-120-v001 Status: Active Comments: APNIC-119-v002 was superseded by this document on 1 January 2010. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Annual Membership Fees ---------------------------- Annual Fees paid by APNIC Members are calculated based on the address resources held by the member at the time of the anniversary of APNIC membership. All fees are assessed, and are payable, using Australian Dollars (AUD). The IPv4 and IPv6 components of the annual fee are calculated separately, according to the total address holdings of the member. The annual membership fee is then charged as the greater of these two components. A member with no IPv4 or IPv6 address space holdings is assessed as an Associate Member. NIR (National Internet Registry) Members and Confederation Members are assessed on their total address holdings, with an additional premium, as described in section 1.4 of this schedule. Members from Least Developed Countries will pay a discounted fee, as described in section 1.5 of this schedule. Failure to pay the annual membership fee will result in the registration record being removed from the APNIC Whois Database. The address space will then be returned to the APNIC free address pool to be reallocated. 1.1 Associate (no address space holdings) A member who holds no IPv4 addresses and no IPv6 addresses will be invoiced the Associate Membership Fee of AUD 675. An Associate Member may hold allocated AS numbers, or Experimental IPv4 or Experimental IPv6 addresses. 1.2 IPv4 Component The Member's total IPv4 address holdings, including historical and APNIC-allocated address space, will be used to assess the IPv4 component of the annual membership fee as follows: Fee(v4) = 1180 x 1.3 (log2(Addresses)-8) Notes: - The minimum annual fee is AUD 1,180 - In this formula, address holdings are expressed as the total count of individual IPv4 addresses (/32) so that, for example, a holding of a /16 and a /18 would constitute 81,920 IPv4 addresses - Experimental allocations of IPv4 addresses are not included in this assessment of total address holdings 1.3 IPv6 Component The Member's total IPv6 address holdings, including historical and APNIC-allocated address space, will be used to assess the IPv6 component of the annual membership fee as follows: Fee(v6) = 1180(log2(Addresses)-22) Notes: - The minimum annual fee is AUD 1,180 - In this formula, address holdings are expressed as the total of IPv6 /56 subnets, so that, for example, a holding of a /32 and a /31 would constitute 50,331,648 /56 subnets - Experimental allocations of IPv6 addresses are not included in this assessment of total address holdings 1.4 NIR and Confederation Members NIR and Confederation annual membership fees will be assessed in the manner described above, with an additional premium of 190 per cent applied to the annual membership fee, such that the total NIR and Confederation annual membership fee is 290 per cent of the ordinary membership fee. 1.5 Members from Least Developed Countries The fees payable by members from Least Developed Countries (LDCs), as calculated in items 1.1 through 1.4, are discounted by 50 per cent. The list of LDCs used for the purposes of this fee discount is defined and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division (currently available as http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm#least). The discount will be applied in accordance with the LDC status of the Member's economy on the date of membership renewal. 2. IPv4 Transfer Fee ------------------------ All regional and inter-RIR IPv4 address transfers are subject to a transfer fee. This fee does not apply to transfers that are a result of a merger, acquisition, takeover, or membership change to or from an NIR. The fee will also not apply to transfers under the historical resource transfer policy. A 20% transfer fee is charged according to the size of the block that is being transferred. For example, if you transfer a /24, the fee would be 20% of AUD 1,357 which is AUD 271. The formula to calculate this fee is the same one used to assess the IPv4 component of the annual non-membership fee. This fee is charged when the transfer occurs and must be paid before the transfer is processed. 3. IP Resource Application Fee ---------------------------------- A Member's first address allocation request is subject to an IP resource application fee of AUD 3,500. Subsequent allocations are free of application fee charges. The following services are exempt from the address application fee: - Critical infrastructure assignments - Experimental allocations - IXP assignments - AS numbers - Historical resource transfers Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee, as per section 1.5. 4. Membership Reactivation Fee --------------------------------- An organization whose APNIC membership has been terminated for non-payment of membership fees may be returned to good standing by payment of a "membership reactivation fee" of AUD 2,700, in addition to payment of any outstanding unpaid fees. This option is available for a limited period of three months after membership termination, after which time all previously allocated and assigned resources are subject to reallocation. Members of LDCs will receive a 50 per cent discount on this fee, as per section 1.5. An organization that does not opt for reactivation of their membership by this means, but wishes to continue using APNIC resources, will need to open a new membership and reapply for all resources required. In this case network renumbering will be necessary. 5. Member Fee Schedule Summary --------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Resource | Unit | Fee | Annual | Service | | | Fee | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Associate | Account | | AUD 675 | | Name | | *1 | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | |1180x1.3 (log | | | |addresses)-8) | IPv4 addresses | /32 | |*2,3 | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | |1180x1.3 (log | IPv6 Addresses | /56 End Site | |addresses) | | Prefix | | -22) | | | |*2,3 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | NIR and | Account Name | | +190% | Confederation | | | *4 | Premium | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | LDC discount | Account Name | | -50% | | | | *4 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Resource | Account Name | AUD 3,500 | - | Application Fee | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Reactivation | Account Name | AUD 2,700 | - | | | *5 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: 1 Fee applies when the Member holds no IP addresses 2 Minimum fee is AUD 1,180 3 Assessed address fees are the greater of the IPv4 and IPv6 fees 4 Premium/Discount is added/subtracted to address fees 5 Plus payment of all outstanding unpaid fees 6. Adoption of this Fee Schedule ----------------------------------- This fee schedule will be applied for each Member on the first anniversary date of the annual membership fee on or after 1 January 2010. For NIR and Confederation Members, per-address fees shall be payable for all allocations performed in 2010 prior to the anniversary date of the NIR or Confederation membership in 2010.