-------------------------------------------------------------------- APNIC Document identity Title: APNIC Membership: Tiers and Voting rights Short title: membership-tiers-voting Document ref: APNIC-121 Version: 001 Date of original publication: 18 June 2009 Date of this version: 18 June 2009 Review scheduled: n/a Obsoletes: n/a Status: Effective from 1 January 2010 Comments: n/a -------------------------------------------------------------------- APNIC Membership: Tiers and Voting rights - 2010 1. Membership of APNIC ---------------------- Members must be in good financial standing with APNIC and must be current with respect to all APNIC member fees and charges. All APNIC Members have equal access to the following benefits of membership: * Entitlement to vote at APNIC Member Meetings, according to membership tier * Participation through APNIC activities in a regional community interest involved in IP addressing and related matters * Free or discounted access to training, education, and information services * Free or discounted access to APNIC meetings and associated conferences * Representation of their interests in regional and global policy development * Access to APNIC's resource allocation, registration, and database services 2. Membership Tiers ------------------- APNIC membership is available in seven tiers: Associate, Very Small, Small, Medium, Large, Very Large, and Extra Large. All members have equal access to the core services of APNIC, and voting entitlements are determined based on the tier structure. A member's membership tier is determined by the amount of address space that member holds as of the anniversary of their date of joining APNIC as a member. The member's total IPv4 and IPv6 holdings, including historical and APNIC-allocated address space will be assessed. Experimental allocations are not counted when determining Membership tier. 2.1 IPv4 address space ---------------------- For IPv4 address space, the membership tier is assessed as follows: Membership tier | IPv4 Holding -------------------|---------------------------------- Associate | None Very Small | Up to and including /22 Small | Greater than /22, up to and including /19 Medium | Greater than /19, up to and including /16 Large | Greater than /16, up to and including /13 Very Large | Greater than /13, up to and including /10 Extra Large | Greater than /10 2.2 IPv6 address space ---------------------- For IPv6 address space, the membership tier is assessed as follows. Membership tier | IPv6 Holding ------------------|-------------------------------------- Associate | None Very Small | Up to and including /35 Small | Greater than /35, up to and including /32 Medium | Greater than /32, up to and including /29 Large | Greater than /29, up to and including /26 Very Large | Greater than /26, up to and including /23 Extra Large | Greater than /23 2.3 IPv4 and IPv6 Holdings -------------------------- For members holding both IPv4 and IPv6 address space, the membership tier is assessed separately for each type, as above. The member's effective membership tier is then assessed as the larger of these. 3. Voting rights ---------------- APNIC members are entitled to vote at APNIC Member Meetings, according to their membership tier as follows: Membership tier | Number of votes ------------------|-------------------------------------- Associate | 1 Very Small | 2 Small | 4 Medium | 8 Large | 16 Very Large | 32 Extra Large | 64