------------------------------------------------------------------- APNIC Document identity Title: APNIC Non-Member Fee Schedule Short title: non-member-fees Document ref: APNIC-122 Version: 003 Date of original publication: 18 June 2009 Date of this version: 5 November 2012 Review scheduled: n/a Obsoletes: APNIC-122-v002 Status: Active Comments: APNIC-118-v002 was superseded by this document on 1 January 2010. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-Members and Non-Member Fees APNIC recognizes that some organizations wish to have access to resources from APNIC without becoming full APNIC Members. These organizations can apply for resources and access certain APNIC services as APNIC Non-Member account holders. APNIC Non-Member account holders must pay the associated Non-Member service fee before APNIC can provide services to the Non-Member account holder. The fees associated with services are detailed below. 1. Annual Address Fee ------------------------ Annual address fees paid by Non-Members of APNIC are based on the address holdings of the Non-Member. The address holdings of the Non-Member are those address resources described in registration records maintained by APNIC that are registered as being held by the Non-Member at the time of the anniversary of the Non-Member services agreement with APNIC. These address holdings include all APNIC-allocated address space listed in the APNIC address registry, including all historically allocated address space. All Non-Member fees are assessed, and are payable, using Australian Dollars (AUD). The IPv4 and IPv6 components of the Non-Member address fee are calculated separately, according to the total address holdings of the Non-Member within each protocol set. The annual address fee is then charged as the greater of these two components. Non-Members from Least Developed Countries will pay a discounted address fee, as described in section 1.1.3 of this schedule. Failure to pay the annual address fee will result in the registration record being removed from the APNIC registry and removal from the public whois database. The address space will then be returned to the APNIC free address pool to be reallocated. 1.1 IPv4 Component If a Non-Member holds IPv4 addresses that have been allocated by APNIC, then the Non-Member's total IPv4 address holdings, including all historical and APNIC-allocated address space, will be used to assess the IPv4 component of the annual address fee as follows: Fee(v4) = 1357 x 1.3 (log2(Addresses)-8) Notes: - The minimum annual fee is AUD 1,357 - 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 1.2 IPv6 Component If a Non-Member holds IPv6 addresses that have been allocated by APNIC, then the Non-Member's total IPv6 address holdings of APNIC-allocated address IPv6 space, will be used to assess the IPv6 address fee as follows: Fee(v6) = 1357(log2(Addresses)-22) Notes: - The minimum annual fee is AUD 1,357 - In this formula, address holdings are expressed as the total of IPv6 end site addresses (/56), so that, for example, a holding of a /32 and a /31 would constitute 50,331,648 /56 site addresses - Experimental allocations of IPv6 addresses are not included in this assessment of total address holdings 1.3 Non-Members from Least Developed Countries The address fees payable by Non-Members from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are discounted by 50%. 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 Non-Member's economy on the date of non-membership renewal. 1.4 Historical Address Holders Non-Members who hold only historical address allocations and who currently subscribe to the Non-Member registry database maintenance service may continue to do so, and not pay the address fee. If the Non-Member receives a further address allocation from APNIC, or is the recipient of a transfer of address space, then the Non-Member address fee will be payable, and will be assessed on the total address holdings of the Non-Member, including both current and historical addresses. 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. The transfer fee is charged according to the size of the block that is being transferred. The fee is calculated as 20% of the annual membership fee for a Member holding a block of IPv4 addresses equal to that of the size of the block that is being transferred. This fee is charged when the transfer occurs and must be paid before the transfer is processed. 3. Address Application Fee ------------------------------ A Non-Member's first address allocation request is subject to an address application fee of AUD 4,000. 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 Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee. 4. Autonomous System Number Fee ---------------------------------- The fee for the assignment of an Autonomous System Number (ASN) is AUD 1,000 per AS number. The annual fee for the registration record is AUD 100 per ASN. Failure to pay the annual maintenance fee will result in the registration record being removed from the APNIC Whois Database. The ASN will then be returned to the APNIC free pool to be reassigned. Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee. 5. Annual Acount Fee for Registry Database Maintenance --------------------------------------------------------- There is an annual AUD 200 account fee for Non-Member account holders with historical resource holdings (holders of resources that were allocated to the holder before the movement of their allocation's registration records to APNIC's registry) wishing to have authorization to update these database registration records and create assignment records within historical resource ranges. Failure to pay the annual database resource maintenance fee will result in the Non-Member organization's maintainer being removed from the 'mnt-lower' field of your historical Internet resource records. Non-Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee. 6. Service Reactivation Fee ------------------------------ When APNIC services have been terminated for non-payment of Non-Members fees, the Non-Member may be returned to good standing by payment of a 'membership reactivation fee' of AUD 3,000, in addition to payment of all outstanding unpaid fees. This option is available for a limited period of three months after termination of the services agreement, after which time all previously allocated and assigned resources are subject to reallocation. Members of LDCs will receive a 50% discount on this fee. An organization that does not opt for reactivation of their services agreement by this means, but wishes to continue using APNIC resources, will need to open a new services agreement and reapply for all resources required. In this case network renumbering will be necessary. 7. Non-Member Fee Schedule Summary ------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Resource | Unit | Fee | Annual | Service | | | Fee | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Address | Account | AUD 4,000 | N/A | application | Name | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | |1357x1.3 (log2| | | |(addresses)-8)| IPv4 addresses | /32 | |*1,2,3 | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | |1357x1.3 (log2| IPv6 Addresses | /56 End Site | |(addresses) | | Prefix | | -22) | | | |*1,2,3 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Autonomous System | AS Number | AUD 1,000 | AUD 100 | assignment | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Registry | | | | database | Account Name | | AUD 200 *3 | maintenance | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | Reactivation | Account Name | AUD 3,000.00(3) | N/A | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | LDC discount | Account Name | | -50% | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Notes: 1 Minimum fee is AUD 1,357 2 The annual address fee is assessed as the greater of the IPv4 and IPv6 address fees. 3 Plus payment of all outstanding unpaid fees. 4 Non-Members who hold only historical address allocations and who currently subscribe to the registry database maintenance service may continue to do so, and not pay the address fee. If the Non-Member receives a further address allocation from APNIC, or is the recipient of a transfer of address space, then the address fee will be payable, and will be assessed on the total address holdings of the Non-Member, including both current and historical addresses. 5 The reverse DNS Delegation fee has been removed from this Non-Member fee schedule.